In speaking that sentence, Frederick Douglass meant that he had found the answer to keeping something as dark, mysterious, and malefic as slavery in society.
We can arrive at this answer because:
- Frederick Douglass was an ex-slave who fought for the end of slavery in the USA.
- In his book "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," he recounts his life as a slave.
- In one of the chapters of the book, he shows that one of the white women he served as a slave tried to teach him to read.
- However, her husband stopped her, stating that a slave who knew how to read would be useless as a slave and would start thinking about freedom and this could not be allowed.
Douglass sees this moment as "the revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things," because at that moment he understood the mystery of why the maintenance of something as terrible and dark as slavery happened. He realized that it was because black people did not have access to education unlike whites, so they did not have access to information and critical thinking that would show them how to rebel against the condition they lived.
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