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 w...
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Making of an Activist
2. Emigration Furor and Notes of Canada West
3. Trouble in ‘Paradise’
4. ‘We Have ‘Broken the Editorial Ice”
5. ...
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Jane Rhodes is Professor of Black Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago where she teaches about the history of race, gender, media, and culture. She is the auth...