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.