Frederick Douglass: “I was generally introduced as a “chattel”—a“thing”—a piece of southern “property”—the chairman assuring the audience…”

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

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.

Old and young, sick and well, were turned loose to the open sky, naked to their enemies.

The conditions of success are universal and unchangeable.