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.