Disambiguation evidence for Frederick Douglass’s North Star newspaper via surface form

"The North Star"


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Predicate Object
advocatedFor Black self-reliance
advocatedFor immediate emancipation of enslaved people
advocatedFor political rights for African Americans
advocatedFor social equality for African Americans
advocatedFor women’s rights
cityOfPublication Rochester
surface form: Rochester, New York
coFounder Martin Delany
countryOfPublication United States of America
surface form: United States
coveredTopic abolitionist politics
coveredTopic anti-slavery lectures and meetings
coveredTopic civil rights for free Black communities
coveredTopic fugitive slave cases
coveredTopic women’s rights and suffrage
distributionArea Northern United States
distributionArea United Kingdom
editor Frederick Douglass
founder Frederick Douglass
frequency weekly
historicalSignificance one of the most influential Black-edited newspapers of the antebellum era
historicalSignificance served as a major platform for Frederick Douglass’s anti-slavery thought
inception December 3, 1847
instanceOf 19th-century newspaper
instanceOf African American newspaper
instanceOf abolitionist newspaper
language English
medium print
mergedInto Frederick Douglass’ Paper in 1851
motto Right is of no sex—Truth is of no color—God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren
namedAfter the North Star used by escaping enslaved people as a guide to freedom
notableContributor Frederick Douglass
notableContributor Gerrit Smith
notableContributor Martin Delany
notableContributor William Lloyd Garrison
opposed colonization schemes to send Black Americans to Africa
opposed racial discrimination
opposed slavery in the United States
politicalAlignment abolitionist movement
politicalAlignment anti-slavery
politicalAlignment civil rights advocacy
primaryGoal abolition of slavery in the United States
primaryGoal advancement of civil rights for African Americans
publicationEndYear 1851
publicationStartYear 1847
publisher Frederick Douglass
successor Frederick Douglass’s North Star newspaper self-linksurface differs
surface form: Frederick Douglass’ Paper
targetAudience Black Americans
surface form: African Americans
targetAudience abolitionists
targetAudience sympathetic white reformers