Frederick Douglass: “I am left in the hottest hell of unending slavery.”

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

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.

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

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.