Frederick Douglass: “It was the sober, thoughtful slave who was dangerous, and needed the vigilance of his master to keep him a slave.”

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.

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.