He said he had been for the last thirty years looking for colored men to whom he could safely reveal his secret, and had almost despaired, at times, of finding such, but that now he was encouraged for he saw heads rising up in all directions, to whom he thought he could with safety impart his plan.
Douglass shares Brown's long search for trustworthy allies among Black men to share his revolutionary plans.
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