Garrison, too, was impressed with Douglass, mentioning him in the Liberator. Several days later Douglass gave his speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual convention in Nantucket-- the speech described at the top of this page.
The abbreviation viz. (or viz without a full stop), short for the Latin videlicet, is used as a synonym for namely, that is to say, to wit, or as follows. It is typically used to introduce examples or further details to illustrate a point.
The abbreviation cf. stands for the Latin word confer which means âcompare.â It is primarily used in endnotes or footnotes to point the reader to works that offer an argument which contradicts or is otherwise different from the authorâs argument.he abbreviation i.e. stands for id est, which translates literally as âthat is.â Sometimes it might be more useful, however, to translate it as âwhat that means isâ or âthat is to say.â This abbreviation is used to clarify the preceding idea by restating it more simply or in different terms.