The white sails in Chesapeake Bay stimulate feelings of both determination and anger— “those beautiful vessels robed in purest white, so delightful to the eye of freemen, were to me so many shrouded ghosts, to terrify and torment me with thoughts of my wretched condition” (974). While Douglas is working for Convey, the white sails symbolize his demoralized state that has kept him “confined in bands of iron” (974); he is spiritually and physically demoralized. However, because the sails are traveling north, they represent a motive to seize his
The white sails in Chesapeake Bay stimulate feelings of both determination and anger— “those beautiful vessels robed in purest white, so delightful to the eye of freemen, were to me so many shrouded ghosts, to terrify and torment me with thoughts of my wretched condition” (974). While Douglas is working for Convey, the white sails symbolize his demoralized state that has kept him “confined in bands of iron” (974); he is spiritually and physically demoralized. However, because the sails are traveling north, they represent a motive to seize his