
In 1847, Douglass publicly disengaged from Garrisonian abolitionism by starting his own independent black print periodical, The North Star. Douglass would later re-title his publication Frederick Douglass’ Paper in 1851, when merging with another anti-slavery entity. In each periodical, Douglass published various statements inviting readers to the pages of the periodical, encouraging African American thinkers and writers to engage.
How does positioning Douglass as a tummler fine tune our focus on the intentions and the methodologies of both The North Star and Frederick Douglass’ Paper? If we see Douglass as a tummler, how might that decenter concepts of Douglass the icon, and enable us to better understand the community he beckoned to his pages?
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• #FrederickDouglass: Technology & African American Literary Studies
Elizabeth Cali is a literature professor at SIUE.
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