You are the man--the Moses, raised up by God, to deliver his modern Israel from bondage,” was the spontaneous feeling of my heart, as I sat away back in the hall and listened to his mighty words,--mighty in truth,-- mighty in their simple earnestness.
Douglass describes his overwhelming feeling of awe and conviction that William Lloyd Garrison was a divinely appointed leader to free enslaved people.
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