From the attitude Douglass expresses in the passage,
the reader can infer that freedom made Douglass feel
Read this excerpt from The Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass.
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 indifferent.
O shocked.
O melancholy.
O thrilled.