Asked how the freedpeople could best take care of themselves and assist the government, Frazier provided a motto for the early struggles of Reconstruction: “The way we can best take care of ourselves,” said Frazier, “is to have land . . . we want to be placed on land until we are able to buy it and make it our own.” To assist the government in executing this revolution, “the young men should enlist in the service . . . and serve in such manner as they may be wanted.”36
