I was not without the suggestion, at the moment, that it might be the harbinger of the coming of the Son of man; and in my then state of mind I was prepared to hail Him as my friend and deliverer.
Witnessing a meteor shower, Douglass reflects on its spiritual significance, interpreting it as a potential sign of divine intervention and a harbinger of his own deliverance from slavery.
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The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.
But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.
The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.