Mary Ann Shadd Cary : the Black press and protest in the nineteenth century
- Author/Creator:
- Rhodes, Jane, 1955-
- Publication/Creation:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1998]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary : the Black press and protest in the nineteenth century / Jane Rhodes
Subjects/Genre
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Subjects:
- Cary, Mary Ann Shadd,1823-1893
African American women civil rights workers--Biography
Civil rights workers--United States--Biography
Free African Americans--Biography
Newspaper publishing--United States--Biography
Women educators--Canada--Biography
African American women educators--Canada--Biography
African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century
Civil rights workers, Black--Canada
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- The making of an activist -- Emigration furor and notes of Canada West -- Trouble in "Paradise" -- "We have 'broken the editorial ice'" -- The Chatham years -- Civil war and the end of the Canadian sojourn -- Reconstructing a life, reconstructing a people -- Law and reform in the nation's capital -- A life spent fighting at the margins.
- 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. - Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xviii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936933017502486
- ISBN:
- 9780253334466
0253334462 - OCLC Number:
- 38989798
- Barcode:
- 010000367395
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