Frederick Douglass: “A government recognizing the validity of the Dred Scott decision at such a time as this, is not likely to have any very…”

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

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

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

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