Frederick Douglass: “I nevertheless remembered their words and their advice, and looked forward to an escape to the north, as a possible…”

An exceptionally poor and dependent people will be despised by the opulent and despise themselves.

Inhuman as was this treatment, it was the natural result of the bitter resentment felt by the old master class, and in view of it, the wonder is, not that the colored people of the South have done so little in the way of acquiring a…

Put us in Kansas or in Africa, and until we learn to save more than we spend, we are sure to sink and perish.

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