Thus elevated a little at Freeland’s, the dreams called into being by that good man, Father Lawson, when in Baltimore, began to visit me again; shoots from the tree of liberty began to put forth buds, and dim hopes of the future began to dawn.
Douglass describes how improved circumstances at Mr. Freeland's reignited his aspirations for liberty, inspired by earlier encounters and hopes.
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