The reading of these speeches added much to my limited stock of language, and enabled me to give tongue to many interesting thoughts, which had frequently flashed through my soul, and died away for want of utterance.
Douglass explains how reading the speeches in 'The Columbian Orator' provided him with the vocabulary and rhetorical tools to articulate his own thoughts on freedom.
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