Southern Newspaper Suppression of Agendas: Through Coverage of Garrison, Douglass, Lincoln, Turner, ‘The Liberator,’ and ‘The North Star’ 1830-1865.

The article focuses on how newspaper coverage shaped and spread abolitionist agendas in the years leading up to the Civil War. Topics include the role of key abolitionist figures and publications like William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator and Frederick Douglass's North Star, the impact of events such as Nat Turner's Rebellion and Abraham Lincoln's rise, and the influence of media in framing public awareness through agenda-setting theory.