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“I was ordained for some great purpose in the hands of the Almighty.”
As reported by Thomas R. Gray · The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831), p. 9
Context An enslaved, self-taught preacher, he told the lawyer Thomas Gray in jail that repeated visions convinced him of a divine calling; Gray's framing shaped the text.
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