Frederick Douglass: “Captain Brown urged us both to go with him, but I could not do so, and could but feel that he was about to rivet the…”

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

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

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

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