Frederick Douglass: “I am,” I thought, “not only the slave of Master Thomas, but I am the slave of society at large.”

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

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

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

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