Frederick Douglass: “Never was there a clearer case of “stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in.” I am filled with…”

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

To-day the negro, starting from nothing, pays taxes upon six millions in Georgia, and forty millions in Louisiana.

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

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