In Rochester, New York, the last stop on the Underground Railroad, Frederick Douglass published the abolitionist newspaper The North Star, naming it after the icon followed by so many escaped ...

In fact, abolitionist sentiment was strong among Western Reserve College students ... he developed one of the most influential African American antislavery publications of the pre-Civil War era. The ...

There Douglass established his own newspaper, The North Star. He did so without the blessing ... morality led him to become an advocate for the abolitionist cause, and in 1831, with the support ...