Frederick Douglass: “I had now penetrated the secret of all slavery and oppression, and had ascertained their true foundation to be in the…”

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

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

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

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