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Biography Of Fredrick Douglass
Fredrick Douglass published a newspaper against slavery which very influential.
He published the newspaper on the 3/12/1847, it was called “The North Star”. It became the most influencing African American antislavery newspaper of the period. Every week a new copy published, there were approximately 4,000 readers from the U.S.A., Europe, and the West indies. In 1851, The North Star combined with Liberty Party Paper of the advocate for anti-slavery Gerrit Smith and the final print was named Frederick Douglass’ Paper. It was published until 1860.

Frederick Douglass was the first African American to be delegated by the U.S. government as a Marshal. As Marshal, Fredrick reinforced the employment of black slaves for small governmental offices and

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