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As the years went on...

Russwurm became the governor of Liberia's Maryland Colony

Cornish returned to the newspaper in a new name, "The rights of All"

In the end...

By the beginning of the American Civil War, three decades later, there were over 40 black-owned and operated newspapers throughout the U.S.

Freedom's Journal

By: Alyssa McKown

Russwurm and Cornish placed great value on the need for reading and writing as keys to empowerment for the black population and they hoped a black newspaper would encourage literacy and intellectual development among African Americans.

John Brown Russwurm:

born in Jamaica on Oct. 1st 1799 and died June 17th 1851

Samuel Cornish:

born in Delaware in 1795 and died on Nov. 6th 1858

Who started it?

What was it?

this was founded by John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish

Freedom's Journal: The first own and operated newspaper in the U.S. by free born African Americans

this was a weekly column printed every Friday

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