Frederick Douglass: “The fear of punishment was the sole motive of any sort of industry with him.”

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

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

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…

No power beneath the sky can make an ignorant, wasteful, and idle people prosperous, or a licentious people happy.