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Mary Ann Shadd

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Profession
Journalist
Died
Jun 5, 1893
Zodiac
Libra
Born in
Delaware
About
Remembered as Canada's first female newspaper publisher and the North American continent's first woman publisher of African descent, she edited an 1850s abolitionist journal called the Provincial Freeman.
Family
She and her twelve younger siblings were born in Delaware to Harriet Parnell and Abraham Doras Shadd. After settling in Canada, she married Thomas F. Cary and gave birth to children named Sarah and Linton.

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