Frederick Douglass: “Men talked here of going whaling on a four years’ voyage with more coolness than sailors where I came from talked of…”

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

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.

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

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