(DOUGLASS FREDERICK) The North Star Volume I No XIV Friday M

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(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.) The North Star, Volume I, No, XIV, Friday March 31, 1848. Large bi-folium leaf, folded to form four pages, faint damp-stain to the top margin at the right of the masthead and bottom toward the spine; some small tears at the spine where removed from a larger volume (?), creases where folded; very light scattered foxing. Rochester, 1848

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Includes an editorial by Douglass, a column by Martin Delany and a sermon by Theodore Parker on the death of John Quincy Adams, who came out of retirement to defend the Amistad Captives, continued from the previous issue. Also included is a long article by Parker Pillsbury "Incidents in the Life of an Anti-Slavery Agent," and a long piece on Jonathan Walker by William C. Nell. Walker, a hero of the movement had been jailed for aiding fugitive slaves in Florida.