Frederick Douglass: “I hated this secresy, but where slavery was powerful, and liberty weak, the latter was driven to concealment or…”

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.

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

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