Frederick Douglass: “But happily, both for the old master-class, and for the recently emancipated, there came then, as there will come now…”

Old and young, sick and well, were turned loose to the open sky, naked to their enemies.

This part of our destiny is in our own hands.

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

They were sent away empty-handed, without money, without friends, and without a foot of land to stand upon.