Mary Ann Shadd was born to a family of free Black abolitionists in the slave state of Delaware October 9, 1823. The family moved to Westchester, Pennsylvania when she was 10 years old. In 1850 when the US Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act into Law, she and her brother Isaac moved to Windsor, Ontario,
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Black Newspaper
Pioneer Black Newspaper Women Honored
on February 27th, 2011
