Isaac Shadd

With the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in September 1850 threatening free blacks as well as actual runaway slaves, Mary Ann Shadd moved with her brother Isaac from the USA to Windsor in Canada...

When the paper was first launched, Samuel Ringgold Ward , a prominent black abolitionist, was named editor in order to generate interest in the publication, though Shadd did the editing herself. She announced herself the...