The North Star (anti-slavery newspaper)
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The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York, by abolitionist 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 Syracuse, New York) to form Frederick Douglass' Paper.[2] At the time of the Civil War, it was Douglass' Monthly.
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Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Publisher | W.C. Nell |
Editor | Frederick Douglass |
Founded | December 3, 1847 (1847-12-03) |
Language | American English |
Ceased publication | June 1, 1851 (1851-06-01) |
City | Rochester, New York |
Country | United States |
OCLC number | 10426469 |
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The North Star's slogan was: "Right is of no Sex—Truth is of no Color—God is the Father of us all, and all we are Brethren."[3][4]