Frederick Douglass: “The word of the slave against this presumption was generally treated as impudence, worthy of punishment.”

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.

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.