Frederick Douglass: “Very well,” thought I; “knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition; and from…”

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

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

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

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