Frederick Douglass: “I look upon my departure from Colonel Lloyd’s plantation as one of the most interesting events of my life.”

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

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.

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