Frederick Douglass: “When this shall come it will then only be used, as it should be, to distinguish one variety of the human family from…”

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

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

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

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