Shadd travelled to Toronto in early September 1851 to act as secretary at a convention on emigration and the repercussions of the Fugitive Slave Act, where she met the emigrationists Martin Delany
and Henry Bibb
Occupation
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
On 23 March 1853 Shadd closed her school after the American Missionary Association
withdrew its financial support. At a committee meeting earlier that year, the Association found that Shadd's lack of Christian evangelism violated their...
