Frederick Douglass: “On such a system of fraud and wrong one might well invoke a bolt from heaven--red with uncommon wrath.”

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

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.

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

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