Mary Ann Shadd was an abolitionist, teacher, lawyer, lecturer, publisher and suffragette. Shadd started the first integrated school in Canada and was the first female black lawyer in North America. She was also the first woman in North America to edit a weekly newspaper. Her paper, The Provincial Freeman, was devoted to displaced Americans living in Canada. Born a free woman in 1823 in Wilmington, Delaware, she took on the fight for abolition and education for Blacks, and battled the segregationists in Upper Canada.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Mary Ann Shadd 1823 - 1893
Mary Ann Shadd was an abolitionist, teacher, lawyer, lecturer, publisher and suffragette. Shadd started the first integrated school in Canada and was the first female black lawyer in North America. She was also the first woman in North America to edit a weekly newspaper. Her paper, The Provincial Freeman, was devoted to displaced Americans living in Canada. Born a free woman in 1823 in Wilmington, Delaware, she took on the fight for abolition and education for Blacks, and battled the segregationists in Upper Canada.
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