Frederick Douglass: “Some apology can easily be made for the few slaves who have, after making good their escape, turned back to slavery…”

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

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.

Another ground of hope for our race is in the progress of education.