The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York, by abolitionists Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass. The paper commenced pub
The North Star, June 2, 1848
February 22, 1850 issue
Gerrit Smith
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Gerrit Smith, also spelled Gerritt Smith, was an American social reformer, abolitionist, businessman, public intellectual, and philanthropist. Married to Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, Smith was a candidate fo
Clasped Hands of Gerrit and Ann Smith, by Edmonia Lewis, 1872
Gerrit Smith house, Peterboro, New York, from an 1878 book. The house was destroyed by fire in 1936.
Smith made women's suffrage a plank in the Liberty Party platform on June 14–15, 1848.