CHAPTER XXIII.. Representative Colored Men.

REPRESENTATIVE COLORED MEN.

Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.--The Legal Destruction of Slavery and a Constitutional Prohibition.--Fifteenth Amendment granting Manhood Suffrage to the American Negro.--President Grant's Special Message upon the Subject.--Universal Rejoicing among the Colored People.--The Negro in the United States Senate and House of Representatives.--The Negro in the Diplomatic Service of the Country.--Frederick Douglass--His Birth, Enslavement, Escape to the North, and Life as a Freeman.--Becomes an Anti-slavery Orator.--Goes to Great Britain.--Returns to America.--Establishes the "North Star."--His Eloquence, Influence, and Brilliant Career.--Richard Theodore Greener.--His Early Life, Education, and Successful Literary Career.--John P. Green.--His Early Struggles to obtain an Education.--A Successful Orator, Lawyer, and Useful Legislator.--Other Representative Colored Men.--Representative Colored Women 419