Frederick Douglass understood that the struggle for emancipation and equality demanded forceful, persistent, and unyielding stirring.
Douglass also soon split with Garrison, who he found unwilling to support actions against American slavery
=== Fight for emancipation and suffrage ===Douglass and the abolitionists argued that because the aim of the Civil War was to end slavery, African Americans should be allowed to engage in the fight for their freedom

