Frederick Douglass: “His fame as an overseer went abroad, and his horrid crime was not even submitted to judicial investigation.”

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

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.

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