USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Through a merger in 1851, Douglass created a new newspaper entitled Frederick Douglass’ Paper. In 1859, he began publishing a monthly paper entitled Douglass’s Monthly. Due to the Civil War and his efforts to recruit black soldiers for the Union Army, Douglass stopped printing his newspapers in 1863.

Detailed explanation-3: -The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York, by abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Detailed explanation-4: -The North Star, later called Frederick Douglass’ Paper, was an antislavery newspaper published by Frederick Douglass.

Detailed explanation-5: -As slave lore tells it, the North Star played a key role in helping slaves to find their way-a beacon to true north and freedom. Escaping slaves could find it by locating the Big Dipper, a well-recognized asterism most visible in the night sky in late winter and spring.