Created by prominent abolitionist Frederick Douglass, The North Star was an abolitionist newspaper than ran from 1947-1851, with the related paper Frederick Douglass's Paper running from 1851-1860. The North Star provided Douglass, a former slave, a place to speak his mind on American slavery and the state of black Americans without fear of censorship.
As an independent black abolitionist press, The North Star was one of the few papers made by black abolitionists for black Americans. Although there were several abolitionist presses and groups already in existence, they centered the ideas of mainly white abolitionists and did not leave room for black abolitionists to share their ideas. The North Star was made in order to combat just that. It represented a turning point in Douglass's career as well as a publication in which Douglass and other black abolitionists could be heard.
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