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Frederick Douglass: Its voice, then, was as the trump of an archangel, summoning hoary forms of oppression and time honoured tyranny, to…

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Its voice, then, was as the trump of an archangel, summoning hoary forms of oppression and time honoured tyranny, to judgment.
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Frederick Douglass

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He metaphorically describes the powerful call for justice as a divine summons against oppression.

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