History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1845 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Bought and Returned
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The idea
British abolitionists purchased Douglass's freedom from his Maryland owner, which let him return to the United States and found his own newspaper.
In practice
The North Star, published at Rochester, New York, in the burned over district.
Where people slip
An abolitionist's liberty secured by purchase recognises the property claim it ends, and Douglass understood that perfectly well.
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