Frederick Douglass: “It is something to couple one’s name with great occasions, and it was a great thing to me to be permitted to bear some…”

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

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

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

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