| LC control no. | n 78036251 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893 |
| Variant(s) | Cary, Mary Shadd, 1823-1893 Shadd, Mary Ann, 1823-1893 Shadd, Mary A., 1823-1893 Cary, Mary Ann Camberton Shadd, 1823-1893 |
| Associated country | United States Canada |
| Located | West Chester (Pa.) Wilmington (Del.) New York Windsor (Ont.) Indiana Washington (D.C.) |
| Birth date | 1823-10-09 |
| Death date | 1893-06-05 |
| Place of birth | Wilmington (Del.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | Howard University |
| Profession or occupation | Teachers Civil rights workers Journalists School principals Publishers and publishing Abolitionists |
| Found in | Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1998: CIP t.p. (Mary Ann Shadd Cary) Black biography, 1790-1950, 1991: v. 1, p. 229 (Cary, Mrs. Mary Ann Shadd; b. Oct. 9, 1823, Wilmington, DE; d. June 5, 1893, Washington DC) NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard Univ., Washington, D.C. for Her Papers, 1844-1888 (Shadd, Mary Ann, 1823-1893; teacher and editor; m. Thomas G.F. Cary; also worked as editor of the fugitive slave newspaper, Provincial Freeman, in Canada, before the American Civil War, and for women's suffrage) Bearden, J. Shadd, 1977 (subj.) t.p. (Mary Shadd Cary) African American women, 1993: pages 451-452 (Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893, orator, educator and the first black female editor of a weekly newspaper in North America. Moved as a young girl with her family to West Chester, Pennsylvania. After graduating at age 16, returned to Wilmington where she opened a school for black children. Taught in Delaware, New York and Pennsylvania. Moved to Canada with her brother, where they both became school teachers in Windsor, Ontario. Began her career in journalism in 1853, launching the integrationist "Provincial Freeman" until inconsistent financial backing forced the paper to close in 1858. Lived in Indiana during the Civil War, then moved to Washington DC where she was a public school principal, a journalist for Frederick Douglass' "New National Era" and entered Howard University to study law, the first woman to do so.) LAC internal file, November 22, 2021 (access point: Shadd, Mary A., 1823-1893; variants: Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893; Cary, Mary Ann Camberton Shadd, 1823-1893; Shadd, Mary Ann, 1823-1893; born 9 October 1823 in Wilmington, Delaware; died 5 June 1893 in Washington, DC; educator, publisher, abolitionist; first Black female newspaper publisher in Canada; founded and edited The Provincial Freeman; established a racially integrated school for Black refugees in Windsor, Canada West; in 1994, was designated a Person of National Historic Significance in Canada) |
| Equivalent(s) | Shadd, Mary A., 1823-1893 |
| National bib agency no. | 0041F6694E |
| Associated language | eng |
| Quality code | nlc |
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