Frederick Douglass: “That phase is this: the conflict of slavery with the interests of the white mechanics and laborers of the south.”

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

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

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

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