Frederick Douglass: “If John Brown did not end the war that ended slavery, he did at least begin the war that ended slavery.”

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

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…

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

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