Now firmly believing, as I do, that there are skill, invention, power, industry, and real mechanical genius, among the colored people, which will bear favorable testimony for them, and which only need the means to develop them, I am decidedly in favor of the establishment of such a college as I have mentioned.
Douglass expresses his firm belief in the inherent talents of Black Americans and advocates for the establishment of a college to develop their mechanical and industrial skills.
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