Frederick Douglass: “His presence made it both the field of blood and of blasphemy.”

This part of our destiny is in our own hands.

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

The old slave quarter that had before sheltered them, and the fields that had yielded them corn, were now denied them.

Pardon me, therefore, for urging upon you, my people, the importance of saving your earnings; of denying yourselves in the present, that you may have something in the future, of consuming less for yourselves that your children may have a…