Frederick Douglass: “I look upon my departure from Colonel Lloyd’s plantation as one of the most interesting events of my life.”

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

The old slave quarter that had before sheltered them, and the fields that had yielded them corn, were now denied them.