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June 5, 1893 (69 years old)
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Libra
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Mary Ann Shadd
Mary Ann Shadd Cary is an anti-slavery activist, journalist, editor, teacher, and Canadian American lawyer. She was the first black woman in North America and the first woman in Canada. She was also the first black woman to attend law school in America. Mary Shadd edited The Province Freeman, founded in 1853. Published weekly in southern Ontario, it advocates equality, inclusion and self-education for blacks in Canada and the United States. Mary's family joined the Underground Railroad to help those who fled slavery. After the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, his family moved to Canada. She returned to the United States during the American Civil War, where she recruited soldiers for the Union. Educate yourself, attend Howard University Law School, and continue to advocate for the civil rights of African Americans and women for the rest of your life.
BornMary Ann Shadd, October 9, 1823, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
DiedJune 5, 1893, Washington, D.C, U.S.
Resting placeColumbian Harmony Cemetery
OccupationAnti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, lawyer
LanguageEnglish
Alma materHoward University (School of Law)
SpouseThomas F. Cary (m. 1856)
Children2
RelativesEunice P. Shadd (sister), Isaac Shadd (brother)

About Mary Ann Shadd

Journalist Mary Ann Shadd was born in Delaware, United States on October 9, 1823. She dies at the age of 69, on June 5, 1893.

She edited an abolitionist publication called the Provincial Freeman in the 1850s and is remembered as Canada's first female newspaper publisher and the North American continent's first woman publisher of African heritage.

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Mary Ann Shadd before becoming famous

Mary Ann Shadd was born in the Zodiac sign Libra (The Scales), and 1823 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Goat (羊).

She pushed free African-Americans to immigrate to Canada in her early adulthood and issued an influential pamphlet to that aim in 1852.

Achievement of Mary Ann Shadd

During the Civil War, she helped the Union Army recruit African-American soldiers. She studied law at Howard University after WWII and, at the age of sixty, became the second American-born woman of African heritage to obtain a J.D.

Mary Ann Shadd's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Harriet Parnell and Abraham Doras Shadd raised her and her twelve younger siblings in Delaware. She married Thomas F. Cary and had two children named Sarah and Linton after settling in Canada.

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She was a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association, as was Activist Susan B. Anthony.

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Mary Ann Shadd Income & Net worth

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