The central idea of this excerpt from Frederick Douglass's "The Destiny of Americans of Color" is that even though people of color have lived under the most severe and bitter circumstances of slavery and oppression.
And in the most unfavorable hardships for existence, the colored population has lived, continues to live, and increases, so it is clear that the land must continue to be the home of the colored man, as long as it remains the abode of civilization, and religion