Mary Ann Shadd Cary : the Black press and protest in the nineteenth century / Jane Rhodes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhodes, Jane, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cary, Mary Ann Shadd, 1823-1893.

Cary, Mary Ann Shadd.

African American women civil rights workers--Biography.

African American women civil rights workers.

Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.

Civil rights workers.

United States.

Free African Americans--Biography.

Free African Americans.

Newspaper publishing--United States--Biography.

Newspaper publishing.

Women educators--Canada--Biography.

Women educators.

Canada.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 284 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1998]

Summary:

Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a courageous and outspoken nineteenth-century African American who used the press and public speaking to fight slavery and oppression in the United States and Canada. Part of the small free black elite who used their education and limited freedoms to fight for the end of slavery and racial oppression, Shadd Cary is best known as the first African American woman to publish and edit a newspaper in North America. But her importance does not stop there. She was an active participant in many of the social and political movements that influenced the nineteenth century - abolition, black emigration and nationalism, women's rights, and temperance. Emigrating to Canada in the 1850s, she taught the children of fugitive slaves and founded a newspaper, the Provincial Freeman. During the Civil War, she recruited black troops for the Union Army, and in the midst of Reconstruction she entered law school at middle age to become the second black woman attorney in the nation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-277) and index.

ISBN:

0253334462

OCLC:

38989798