Frederick Douglass: “I talked to them of our want of manhood, if we submitted to our enslavement without at least one noble effort to be…”

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

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

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

The nation or people which shall comply with them will rise, and those which violate them will fall, and perhaps will disappear altogether.