Finally having escaped, Douglass is draped in excitement and joy. His exceptional description of the feeling of freedom allows the reader to feel this excitement and understand how relieving it was to leave slavery. After benefiting from the help of a few kind people, he begins to sort out his life as a free man. This marks a permanent point of prosperity for Douglass, as his life will only improve after he is freed from slavery. The story ends with him attending an anti-slavery meeting where he “never felt happier” (69 Douglass). Although this is at the end of the book, it represents the turning point in Douglass's vision of change. people who saw black people not as cattle, but as people who did not deserve to be slaves to their white masters, suddenly finding themselves immersed in people who recognized the horror of slavery and who were proactive in implementing change. Douglass would be overwhelmed by the hope that slavery would no longer be a perpetual practice.