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Frederick Douglass (February 14, 1817 - February 20, 1895)

American abolitionist, journalist, and orator, often referred to as the "father" of the modern civil rights movement. Douglass was born a slave in Tuckahoe, Maryland, and spent his adolescence as a houseboy in Baltimore. He escaped to New Bedford, Massachussetts in 1836. In 1841 he began a career as an abolitionist after giving a rousing, impromptu speech at an antislavery convention in Nantucket, Massachussetts.

He used his oratorical skills in the ensuing years to lecture in the northern states against slavery. He also helped slaves escape to the North while working with the Underground Railroad. He established the abolitionist paper The North Star on December 3, 1847, in Rochester, NY, and developed it into the most influential black antislavery paper published during the antebellum era. It was used to not only denounce slavery, but to fight for the emancipation of women and other oppressed groups.

Its motto was "Right is of no Sex - Truth is of no Color - God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren."

It was circulated to more than 4,000 readers in the United States, Europe, and the West Indies.

The North Star was four pages long and sold by subscription at the cost of $2 per year..

In June 1851 the paper merged with the Liberty Party Paper of Syracuse, NY and was renamed Frederick Douglass' Paper. It circulated under this new name until 1860. Douglass devoted the next three years to publishing an abolitionist magazine called Douglass' Monthly. In 1870 he assumed control of the New Era, a weekly established in Washington, D.C. to serve former slaves. He renamed it The New National Era, and published it until it shut down in 1874.

Douglass also served as U.S. marshal for the District of Columbia (1877-81), and U.S. minister of Haiti (1889-91). He died in Washington, D.C. on February 20, 1895. From PBS

Welcome! I created a New Magazine for Ink Spots ARTS and Entertainment...

The New Magazine title, is "North Star" and it will replace (Noise Magazine). My inspiration came from the Anti-Slavery Newspaper that was published by Frederick Douglass. The main theme of the new magazine is World Travel. This is my way of honoring (Freedom of the Press).

“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved,” wrote Founding Father Benjamin Franklin in The Pennsylvania Gazette.

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Feb182018

New Travel Magazine First Stop, Israel and Jerusalem

Sunday, February 18, 2018 at 08:16PM

We start in Jerusalem, alive with religious tradition and passion — Christian, Muslim, and Jewish. We then visit cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, with its in-love-with-life beaches; ponder the sad fortress of Masada; and join pilgrims at biblical sights around the Sea of Galilee. We'll also pay our respects at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, drop into an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, and savor the local cuisine.