Frederick Douglass: “I was more than that, and she felt me to be more than that.”

Still another ground of hope I find in the fact that colored men are strong in their gratitude to benefactors, and firm in their political convictions.

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

None now denies the ability of the colored race to acquire knowledge of anything which can be communicated to the human understanding by letters.

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