Frederick Douglass: “It is another way of saying that slavery is better than freedom; that darkness is better than light, and that wrong is…”

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

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.

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