Frederick Douglass's North Star Reaches 3,000 Subscribers

By the mid-1850s Frederick Douglass's newspaper, launched as the North Star in 1847 and renamed Frederick Douglass' Paper in 1851, had grown to 3,000 subscribers across the US, Canada, and Europe. The paper was the most widely read Black-owned publication in America and a cornerstone of the abolitionist movement, sustained largely through Douglass's own lecturing income.