North Star (newspaper)
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The North Star was an abolitionist newspaper founded in 1847 by Frederick Douglass in Rochester, New York. Douglass, a former slave and a prominent antislavery speaker and writer, gained a circulation of over 4,000 readers in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean. Taking as its motto "Right is of no Sex — Truth is of no Color — God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren," the North Star served as a forum not only for abolitionist views, but also supported the feminist movement and the emancipation of other oppressed groups.
Douglass published the North Star until June of 1851, when Douglass and Gerrit Smith agreed to merge the North Star with the Liberty Party Paper (based out of Syracuse, New York) to form Frederick Douglass's Paper.
[edit] Writing from the North Star
- "Our Paper and Its Prospects", The North Star, December 3, 1847.
[edit] The North Star Fund
- "The North Star Fund", a New York City community foundation that took its name from Frederick Douglass' newspaper. The North Star fund is dedicated to social change in New York City communities.
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