We are now about to assume the management of the editorial department of a newspaper, devoted to the cause of Liberty, Humanity and Progress. The position is one which, with the purest motives, we have long desired to occupy. It has long been our anxious wish to see, in this slave-holding, slave-trading, and Negro-hating land, a printing-press and paper, permanently established, under the complete control and direction of the immediate victims of slavery and oppression.
[J]ustice must be done, the truth must be told...I will not be silent."--Frederick Douglass, introducing his anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star, the first issue of which was published on December 3, 1847
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