Frederick Douglass: “The landlord keeps books; the Negro does not; hence, no matter how hard he may work or how hard saving he may be, he is…”

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

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

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

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