Read this excerpt from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
What inference can be drawn about Douglass in this
excerpt?
The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to
eternal wakefulness. Freedom now appeared, to
disappear no more forever. It was heard in every
sound, and seen in every thing. It was ever present to
torment me with a sense of my wretched condition. I
saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without
hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked
from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in
every wind, and moved in every storm.
O His new ideas are upsetting to his fellow enslaved
persons
O He wants to read more about personal freedoms
O His new ideas prevent him from getting his work
done
O He is unable to ignore the appeal of freedom.