Mary Ann Shadd Cary

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Journalist and editor of the newspaper The Provincial Freeman in the northern US and Canada during the mid nineteenth century, MASC also wrote a short book advocating emigration to Canada for free blacks living in the United States and lectured on abolition, emigration, and women's suffrage.
  • BirthName: Mary Ann Camberton Shadd
  • Married: Cary
  • Indexed: Mary Ann Shadd
Somewhat blurry black and white photograph of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. She is wearing a top buttoned waistcoat, with the details of her hair not able to be seen, however it seems to be braided back.

Milestones

9 October 1823

Mary Ann Shadd (who published her later writings as Cary) was born in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, the eldest of thirteen children.
Bearden, Jim, and Linda Jean Butler. Shadd: The Life and Times of Mary Shadd Cary. NC Press, 1977.
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23 March 1849

The career of Mary Ann Shadd (later Cary) in political writing began with the publication of a Letter she had written to Frederick Douglass in the current issue of his periodical, the North Star.
Cary, Mary Ann Shadd. “Letter”. North Star, edited by Frederick Douglass, 23 Mar. 1849, pp. 32-3.
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1852

Mary A. Shadd issued A Plea for Emigration; or, Notes of Canada West, in its moral, social, and political aspect: with suggestions respecting Mexico, West Indies, and Vancouver's Island, for the information of colored emigrants.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

24 March 1853

Mary Ann Shadd (later Cary) founded and continued as editor-in-chief of The Provincial Freeman, a newspaper published out of Canada West.
Peterson, Carla L. “‘Colored Tourists’: Nancy Prince, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Ethnographic Writing, and the Question of Home”. Doers of the Word: African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North (1830-1880), Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 88-118.
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Shadd was the first female newspaper editor in Canada.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Peterson, Carla L. “‘Colored Tourists’: Nancy Prince, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Ethnographic Writing, and the Question of Home”. Doers of the Word: African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North (1830-1880), Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 88-118.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

5 June 1893

MASC died at her daughter 's house in Washington, DC, possibly of stomach cancer.
Bearden, Jim, and Linda Jean Butler. Shadd: The Life and Times of Mary Shadd Cary. NC Press, 1977.
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Biography

Birth and Background

9 October 1823

Mary Ann Shadd (who published her later writings as Cary) was born in Wilmington, Delaware, USA, the eldest of thirteen children.
Bearden, Jim, and Linda Jean Butler. Shadd: The Life and Times of Mary Shadd Cary. NC Press, 1977.
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