The North Star with Shaun King

The North Star with Shaun King

The North Star's Resistance to White Supremacy

thenorthstar
Feb 11, 2019
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On December 3, 1847, Frederick Douglass, who became an abolitionist and public intellectual, published the first issue of The North Star. As Douglass tells it in his Life and Times, the purpose of The North Star was clear and urgent: “It would require much time and space to set forth the arguments which demonstrated…the unconstitutionality of slavery, b…

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