On this day (Dec. 3) in 1847, Frederick Douglass launched his own newspaper, “The North Star,” after years of reading and being inspired by William Lloyd Garrison’s “The Liberator.” Renowned for its bold stance against slavery, the paper amplified Douglass’s voice as a leading abolitionist, building on his influential 1845 autobiography, Narrative of the Life […]
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