Frederick Douglass: “But, the whole thing, as a feature of slavery, shocked me.”

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

They cannot be coaxed or driven to vote with their enemies against their friends.

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…

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