When Canada Post unveiled abolitionist Mary Ann Shadd’s new postage stamp, her kin stood tall and proud. To mark Black History Month in February, more than a dozen descendants gathered recently ...

Sculpture of Mary Ann Shadd, North America's first Black female publisher, unveiled in Windsor, Ont. "I think it's beautiful," said Adrienne Shadd, a family member from Toronto who was involved in ...

Not much stood in Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s way ... and a distant relative of Shadd Cary. 1823: Born to a free black family in Delaware. 1833: Family moves to Pennsylvania for better education.

This is first time in Canadian postal history that a father and daughter outside the British Royal Family each have appeared on a stamp, Canada Post officials said. The Mary Ann Shadd stamp ...

Mary Ann Shadd ... it's about time." Shadd was an influential abolitionist who lived in Windsor and published The Provincial Freeman, the third anti-slavery newspaper published in Canada. She was born ...

Delaware native Mary Ann Shadd Cary left the state she was born ... Cary was the oldest of 13 children and was raised in a family dedicated to abolishing slavery. With the education of blacks ...

In 1833, the Shadd family moved to Pennsylvania to escape the slave trade. In 1853, Mary Ann founded The Provincial Freeman newspaper in Canada and, although her name appeared as 'MA Shadd ...

A sculpture depicting Mary Ann Shadd, created by Windsor artist ... a descendent of the Shadd family and president of the Essex County Black Historical Research Society. I think she’s a role ...

Adrienne Shadd said Mary Ann's legacy of "fearlessness" inspires the family today. "She didn't seem to shy away from criticizing and calling out leaders of the community, whether they were white ...