USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Frederick Douglas-The North Star. 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The North Star (Rochester, N.Y.), 1847-1851 Douglass founded and edited his first antislavery newspaper, The North Star, beginning December 3, 1847. The title referred to the bright star, Polaris, that helped guide those escaping slavery to the North.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the first issue of The North Star, Douglass explained his reasons for establishing an African American-owned newspaper. He emphasized that he did not want to seem ungrateful to people such as William Lloyd Garrison, a white abolitionist who published the antislavery paper The Liberator.

Detailed explanation-4: -Douglass was a leader of the abolition movement, fighting against slavery through speeches and writings. He passed away in 1874 at his home in Washington D.C. The North Star, later called Frederick Douglass’ Paper, was an antislavery newspaper published by Frederick Douglass.

Detailed explanation-5: -Most people know the story of Douglass’s daring escape from slavery and his work with William Lloyd Garrison. What else do you wish people knew? Douglass published his most famous autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, in 1845; Garrison was his publisher.