Frederick Douglass: “Slavery, like all other great systems of wrong, founded in the depths of human selfishness, and existing for ages, has…”

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

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

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.

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