Frederick Douglass: “History does not furnish an example of emancipation under conditions less friendly to the emancipated class, than this…”

The battle against popular prejudice will have been fought and won, and in common with all other races and colors, we shall have an equal chance in the race of life.

Let us then, wherever we are, whether at the North or at the South, resolutely struggle on in the belief that there is a better day coming, and that we by patience, industry, uprightness, and economy may hasten that better day.

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.

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