Frederick Douglass: “They received me as a man and a brother, when I was new from the house of bondage, and had few of the graces derived…”

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

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

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

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.