More is known of MASC
's father, Abraham Doras Shadd
. His paternal grandfather, Hans Schad
, was a German soldier who fought in the American Revolution and later married Elizabeth Jackson
, a free...
Residence
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
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
Textual Production
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Her father
joined her for part of the tour in the United States. Their lectures advocated abolition and emigration, and argued against the colonisation of parts of Africa by American blacks. Critic Richard Almonte
suggests...
