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    Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, journalist, and orator born into slavery in 1817. He escaped to Massachusetts in 1836 and began his career as an abolitionist speaker in 1841. In 1847, Douglass established The North Star, one of the most influential abolitionist newspapers of its time. The paper promoted the emancipation of slaves and other oppressed groups. Douglass also served as U.S. Marshal and minister to Haiti later in his life, continuing his advocacy work until his death in 1895.

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    Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, journalist, and orator born into slavery in 1817. He escaped to Massachusetts in 1836 and began his career as an abolitionist speaker in 1841. In 1847, Douglass established The North Star, one of the most influential abolitionist newspapers of its time. The paper promoted the emancipation of slaves and other oppressed groups. Douglass also served as U.S. Marshal and minister to Haiti later in his life, continuing his advocacy work until his death in 1895.

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    Frederick Douglass was an American abolitionist, journalist, and orator born into slavery in 1817. He escaped to Massachusetts in 1836 and began his career as an abolitionist speaker in 1841. In 1847, Douglass established The North Star, one of the most influential abolitionist newspapers of its time. The paper promoted the emancipation of slaves and other oppressed groups. Douglass also served as U.S. Marshal and minister to Haiti later in his life, continuing his advocacy work until his death in 1895.

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    Frederick Douglass (February 14, 1817 - February 20,


    1895)
    American abolitionist, journalist, and orator, often referred to
    as the "father" of the modern civil rights movement.

    Douglass was born a slave in Tuckahoe, Maryland, and


    spent his adolescence as a houseboy in Baltimore. He
    escaped to New Bedford, Massachussetts in 1836. In 1841
    he began a career as an abolitionist after giving a rousing,
    impromptu speech at an antislavery convention in
    Nantucket, Massachussetts.

    He used his oratorical skills in the ensuing years to lecture


    in the northern states against slavery. He also helped
    slaves escape to the North while working with the
    Underground Railroad. He established the abolitionist paper
    The North Star on December 3, 1847, in Rochester, NY,
    and developed it into the most influential black antislavery
    paper published during the antebellum era. It was used to
    not only denounce slavery, but to fight for the emancipation
    of women and other oppressed groups. Its motto was "Right
    is of no Sex - Truth is of no Color - God is the Father of us
    all, and we are all brethren." It was circulated to more than
    4,000 readers in the United States, Europe, and the West
    Indies. In June 1851 the paper merged with the Liberty
    Party Paper of Syracuse, NY and was renamed Frederick
    Douglass' Paper. It circulated under this new name until
    1860. Douglass devoted the next three years to publishing
    an abolitionist magazine called Douglass' Monthly. In 1870
    he assumed control of the New Era, a weekly established in
    Washington, D.C. to serve former slaves. He renamed it
    The New National Era, and published it until it shut down in
    1874.

    Douglass also served as U.S. marshal for the District of


    Columbia (1877-81), and U.S. minister of Haiti (1889-91).
    He died in Washington, D.C. on February 20, 1895.

    FURTHER READING

    Douglass, Frederick. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.


    New York: Collier Books, 1962.

    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American


    Slave. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University,
    1960.

    Foner, Philip S. The Life and Writings of Frederick


    Douglass: The Civil War 1861-1865. New York:
    International Publishers,1952.

    Foner, Philip S. The Life and Writings of Frederick


    Douglass: Reconstruction and After. New York: International
    Publishers,1955.

    Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Slave and Citizen: The Life of


    Frederick Douglass. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.
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    28-01-2023 18:43 Frederick Douglas-The North Star

    Penn, I. Garland. The Afro-American Press and its Editors.


    Salem, New Hampshire: Ayer Company, Publishers, Inc.,
    1891.

    Quarles, Benjamin. Frederick Douglass. Washington, D.C.:


    The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1948.

    Articles:

    Padgett, Chris, Finding His Voice: The Liberation of


    Frederick Douglass, 1818-1888. Proteus 1995 12 (1):10-1.

    Perry, Patsy Brewington, Before The North Star: Frederick


    Douglass' Early Journalistic Career. Phylon 1974 35 (1): 96-
    107.

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