Frederick Douglass: “A life of living death, beset with the innumerable horrors of the cotton field, and the sugar plantation, seemed to be…”

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

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

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

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.