Frederick Douglass: “Hereditary bondmen, know ye not Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?”

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

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

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

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