Frederick Douglass: “To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems…”

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…

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

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