Mary Ann Shadd
Mary Ann Camberton Shadd was born into the loving arms of Abraham Doras Shadd and Harriet Parnell on October 9, 1823 in Wilmington, Delaware. She was the eldest of 13 children. Mary grew up a free black in a slave state. She saw many frightened escaped slaves, as her house was a station where her family helped and sheltered them. This and being influenced by her father made her determined to change the way things were as much as she could. Mary Ann Camberton Shadd is a hero because she fought for equality, she faced the people who thought different, and she was definitely one of the many people to shape the way our world is today. Mary published many articles, a newspaper, and spoke out about her beliefs. She wrote many articles for the North Star, a newspaper about black independence and self-respect, after the publisher read and was impressed by her pamphlet "Hints to the Coloured People of the North". A few years later she published a booklet, "Notes of Canada West" to encourage blacks to live in Canada as slavery was abolished in
Mary Ann Shadd, among others, has helped in many ways with the way the world is today, although it has taken a long time. Compared to when Mary was alive and well, there is a lot less racism and sexism. She is one of the people who gave us the freedom we all have. Other then writing and publishing, Mary spoke out. She travelled the United States and Canada lecturing mainly about racism and women's rights. A reporter for Frederick Douglass' Paper states that she told "...one of the most convincing and telling speeches in favour of Canadian emigration". Two places where she lectured were before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States and the National Women's Suffrage Association. In the end Mary accomplished many firsts dealing mainly with her sex but also with her race. She was the first black woman publisher, the first black newswoman and investigative reporter, the first woman editor. She was also the first black woman to lecture in public, the first woman law student at Howard University, one of the first few
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