Frederick Douglass: “These holidays served the purpose of keeping the minds of the slaves occupied with prospective pleasure within the…”

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

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.

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