LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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It was the first African American novel.
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It was the first African American newspaper.
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It was published by Frederick Douglass.
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It argued for a separate African American community in America.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Freedom’s Journal. Founded on March 16, 1827 as a four-page, four-column standard-sized weekly, Freedom’s Journal was the first black-owned and operated newspaper in the United States, and was established the same year that slavery was abolished in New York State.
Detailed explanation-2: -Freedom’s Journal, the first African American owned and operated newspaper, began circulating in 1827.
Detailed explanation-3: -Freedom’s Journal, established the same year that slavery was abolished in New York, was the first African American-owned and operated newspaper in the United States. In its early years, it distributed more than 800 copies throughout 11 states and the District of Columbia.
Detailed explanation-4: -African-American newspapers (also known as the Black press or Black newspapers) are news publications in the United States serving African-American communities. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African-American periodical called Freedom’s Journal in 1827.
Detailed explanation-5: -Freedom’s Journal, the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States, was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829. Samuel Cornish served as co-editor with John B. Russwurm between March 16, 1827 and September 14, 1827.