Frederick Douglass
You're Dead to Me
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The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro
The North Star focuses on publishing letters by black readers while also speaking out on racial injustice. By 1848, the paper had five times as many white subscribers as black. Douglas also engaged with British literary culture by serializing Charles Dickens's Bleak House in 1852 to 1853. He made a comparison between America freeing itself from British rule and the concept of slavery.
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