Frederick Douglass: “His very presence was fearful, and I shunned him as I would have shunned a rattlesnake.”

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.