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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.
Independent African American & African Business Newspaper Group: also covers Pittsfield, Lowell, Framingham, Cambridge and Cape Cod Newton TAB: Newton: Middlesex: Weekly: New Media Investment Group: North Andover Citizen: North Andover: Essex: Weekly: New Media Investment Group: The North Attleborough Free Press: North Attleborough: Bristol ...
We follow in the footsteps of Frederick Douglass who aptly wrote in the first edition of his North Star Newspaper in 1847: “It has long been our anxious wish to see, in this slave-holding, slave ...
The Sun Chronicle (formerly The Attleboro Sun and the Evening Chronicle) is a daily newspaper in Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States.Most of its readers are in Attleboro and North Attleborough, Massachusetts, but it also covers nearby Foxborough, Mansfield, Norfolk, Norton, Plainville, Rehoboth, Seekonk, and Wrentham, Massachusetts, as well as North Eastern Rhode Island.
In pre-Colonial times, the land was the site of the Bay Path, a major Native American trail to Narragansett Bay, the Seekonk River, and Boston.English settlers arrived in the area in 1634 [6] and established the settlement of Rehoboth—which included the modern day municipalities of North Attleborough, Attleboro, Somerset, Seekonk, as well as parts of Rhode Island—from land sold to them by ...
The area was largely bypassed by the industrialization that spurred the growth in importance of the centers of Attleboro and North Attleborough. Three houses within the district were built before 1800, one of them (the Stearns House at 692 Old Post Road) with a late 17th-century ell.
A 54-year-old North Attleboro man has pleaded guilty to stealing gold, silver and platinum from a Rhode Island jewelry manufacturer. Benjamin Preacher, who worked for the company as a ...