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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 ...
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.
The newspaper also enjoyed an excellent voluntary distribution network as its penetration followed rapidly wherever the United Irishmen set up new branches. It was estimated that for each copy of the Northern Star sold there were at least five readers, as the reading aloud of articles from the paper was a regular feature of United Irish meetings.
The Northern Star continued to sell well, however, outstripping the 6,000 copies a week sold by Robert Hartwell's The Charter with a circulation of 48,000. Whilst in prison, O'Connor also used the paper as his means of communication with the Chartists. From its start, Northern Star was a lively and innovative newspaper. It quickly abandoned the ...
The Northern Star, a newspaper in New South Wales, Australia; Northern Star, a South Australian newspaper that became The Kapunda Herald; Northern Star (Chartist newspaper), 1837–1852; Northern Star (Northern Illinois University), a student newspaper; Northern Star (newspaper of the Society of United Irishmen), 1792–1797
In 2008, composer and saxophonist T. K. Blue, commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), recorded Follow the North Star, a musical composition inspired by Northup's life. [104] The episode "Division" of the 2010 television miniseries America: The Story of Us depicts Northup's slave auction.
During the antebellum period, other African American newspapers sprang up, such as The North Star, founded in 1847 by Frederick Douglass. As African Americans moved to urban centers beginning during the Reconstruction era, virtually every large city with a significant African American population had newspapers directed towards African Americans ...
Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary (October 9, 1823 – June 5, 1893) was an American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. She was the first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada.