Frederick Douglass: “There is in him that union of head and heart, which is indispensable to an enlightenment of the heads and a winning of…”

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

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

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.