Mary Ann Shadd Cary Collection

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary Collection

1844-1884

https://dh.howard.edu/mscary/

The Mary Ann Shadd Cary Papers are contained in one box measuring ½ linear feet and cover the period between 1844 to1884. Included in the papers are correspondence, articles, speeches, editorials, reports, documents, printed material, and programs relating to Mary Ann Shadd Cary's activities in the U.S. and Canada as editor of the Provincial Freeman, as a strong supporter of Women's Suffrage and as an army recruiter. These papers were donated to the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center by Vanetta Willis in 1971.

.5 linear ft.

eng, Latn

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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SNAC Resource ID: 8046760

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University

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Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary (b. Oct. 9, 1823, Wilmington, DE–d. June 5, 1893, Washington, D.C.) was the eldest of 13 children to Abraham Doras Shadd (1801–1882) and Harriet Burton Parnell, who were free African-Americans. Her father was a conductor in the Underground Railroad and Mary Ann grew up with many freedom-seekers in her house. The family moved to Pennsylvania and she attended a Quaker Boarding School before relocating to Ontario, Canada. While in Windsor, Ontario, Mary Ann founded a racially i...