Frederick Douglass Founds The North Star in Rochester

Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany co-founded The North Star in Rochester, New York — the most influential Black newspaper of the antebellum era. Douglass sold his British lecture gifts to fund it. The masthead read: 'Right is of no Sex — Truth is of no Color — God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren.' By 1851 it became Frederick Douglass' Paper and continued until 1860, reaching 4,000 subscribers.