owned newspaper. While the North Star was only one of already many abolitionist newspapers in circulation that were owned by white men (some examples were The Liberator or the Genius of Universal Emancipation), he felt that African American men’s own voices had to be heard in these papers since this was their personal struggle. While he did not mean to discredit any of the other newspapers’ views at any point, he didn’t always agree with their views - for example, the belief written in the Genius of Universal Emancipation that the Union should be dissolved and that the Constitution was fundamentally pro-slavery.

     The North Star had a new issue every week and was sold by a subscription per year to over 4 thousand readers. Included were reports of current abolitionist events, letters from readers, articles, editorials, poetry, book reviews, and many varying things all relating to the abolitionist movement. Common themes included education for African Americans and equal rights for all – notably including women. Some contributors were Douglass's coeditor Martin Delany, white abolitionist Julia Griffiths, escaped slave Harriet Jacobs, and even some excerpts from Charles Dickens' novel appeared in the paper.

     Unfortunately, financially, the North Star was not the most lucrative of endeavors. Douglass went to the lengths of mortgaging his house in an attempt to keep the newspaper alive. His efforts were in vain, however, and to keep the newspaper alive, he merged his paper with another abolitionist paper, the Liberty Party Paper to create Frederick Douglass's Paper. However, despite the name change, the content stayed the same for the most part, and would continue its circulation as normal.