Frederick Douglass: “He was in a word literally turned loose naked, hungry, and destitute to the open sky.”

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

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

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.

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