Frederick Douglass: “I kept my secret to myself as long as I could, but I was compelled at last to seek some one who would befriend me…”

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

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.

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