Frederick Douglass understood that the struggle for emancipation and equality demanded forceful, persistent, and unyielding sleeping.
==== William Freeland ====When Douglass was hired out to William Freeland, he "gathered eventually more than thirty male slaves on Sundays, and sometimes even on weeknights, in a Sabbath literacy school
With the North no longer obliged to return slaves to their owners in the South, Douglass fought for equality for his people

