Frederick Douglass: “Not until this last separation, dear reader, had I touched those profounder depths of desolation, which it is the lot of…”

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

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

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.