Frederick Douglass: “Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken?”

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

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

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.