My thoughts would compel utterance; and there, with no audience but the Almighty, I would pour out my soul’s complaint in my rude way with an apostrophe to the moving multitude of ships.
In his autobiography, Douglass describes his solitary moments by the Chesapeake Bay, where he would passionately voice his anguish and longing for freedom to the passing ships and to God.
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