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The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York, by abolitionists Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass. [1] The paper commenced publication on December 3, 1847, and ceased as The North Star in June 1851, when it merged with Gerrit Smith's Liberty Party Paper (based in ...
Abolitionist newspapers and magazines (U.S.) Title Dates Location Notable editors Online editions The Anti-Slavery Bugle [1] 1845–1861: Lisbon, Ohio: James Barnaby, Oliver Johnson: LOC, Newspapers.com: The Colored American: 1837-1842 New York, New York Samuel Cornish, Phillip Alexander Bell, Charles Bennett Ray: Genius of Universal ...
Writing for abolitionist newspapers The Liberator and The North Star, he helped publicize the anti-slavery cause. He published the North Star from 1847 to 1851, moving temporarily to Rochester, New York. [1] He also helped found the New England Freedom Association in the early 1840s, and later the Committee of Vigilance, to aid refugee slaves.
After returning to the U.S. in 1847, using £500 (equivalent to $57,716 in 2023) given to him by English supporters, [89] Douglass started publishing his first abolitionist newspaper, the North Star, from the basement of the Memorial AME Zion Church in Rochester, New York. [100]
The Liberator (1831–1865) was a weekly abolitionist newspaper, printed and published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison and, through 1839, by Isaac Knapp.Religious rather than political, it appealed to the moral conscience of its readers, urging them to demand immediate freeing of the slaves ("immediatism").
America’s first newspaper dedicated to advocating for the end of slavery is being resurrected and reimagined more than two centuries The post Abolition newspaper revived for nation grappling ...
A bust of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass was unveiled in the Massachusetts Senate Chamber on Wednesday, the first bust of an African American to be permanently added to the Massachusetts ...
Pages in category "Defunct African-American newspapers" The following 105 pages are in this category, out of 105 total. ... The North Star (anti-slavery newspaper) O ...