Frederick Douglass: “But plainly enough, it is not the ignorance of the Negro but the malevolence of his accusers, which is the real cause of…”

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

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

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.

We are no longer four millions of slaves, but six millions of freemen.