Frederick Douglass: “I dare to contend for the coloured people of the United States that they are a law-abiding people, and I dare to insist…”

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

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

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

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