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Contribution #99 of 365
Frederick Douglass
Founder and Publisher of The North Star
1847
The contribution
How this work helped shape America
Frederick Douglass purchased a printing press and established The North Star in Rochester, New York, in 1847. The newspaper gave him an independent publishing platform that became one of the nation's leading antislavery publications and expanded Black American participation in American journalism and publishing.