CHAPTER VII.
THE GENIUS OF FREEDOM.
SHORTLY after this, another effort at Afro-American journalism was made in the publication of The Genius of Freedom, issued some time between 1845 and 1847, with Mr. David Ruggles as editor and publisher. The exact date of the commencement of this paper is not known, the writer having exhausted all resources to find out.
Ruggles also published contemporaneously with The Colored American a quarterly magazine, under the style and title of "The Mirror of Liberty," which we shall notice in another chapter.
It is safe to conclude that The Genius of Freedom was not published until after the suspension of Mr. Ruggles' Magazine in 1841, and prior to the establishment of The North Star, at Rochester, N. Y., in 1847. This paper, while edited for the interest of the Afro-American, did not survive a long life. It was soon gathered into its projectors' arms, however, with the knowledge of its having done something for an oppressed people. Thus, little is known of it by any one save the most careful observer of men, times and events.
Mr. Ruggles was a highly educated gentleman, refined in
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