Frederick Douglass's Newspapers: Black Organizing and the Press for Freedom

The first book to focus on the newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass and their impact on Black organizing

A robust body of work has established the importance of print in general, and newspapers in particular, to African American culture in the 1800s. Such work regularly acknowledges Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) as one of the most influential newspaper editors of the nineteenth century, a judgment that Douglass and many of his contemporaries shared. But while recent scholarship has conti...