Frederick Douglass: “By this means the laborer is brought into debt, and hence is kept always in the power of the land-owner.”

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

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…

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

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