They conducted a campaign of education, which in every case preceded an attempt at securing members.

This campaign of education had for its object the instruction of the negro as to what real freedom was.

He was taught that being released from chains was but the lowest form of liberty, and that he was no more than a common cur if he was satisfied with simply that.

That much was all, they taught, that a dog howled for.
They made use of Jefferson's writings, educating the negro to feel that he was not in the full enjoyment of his rights until he was on terms of equality with any other human being that was alive or had ever lived.

This society used its influence secretly to have appointed over Southern schools of all kinds for negroes such teachers as would take especial pains to teach the negro to aspire for equality with all other races of men.
"They were instructed to pay especial attention to the history of the United States during the revolutionary period.