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 ...

The Shadd family, who date to the 1700s in Wilmington, included Abraham Doras Shadd, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, who among her many accomplishments was the ...

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.

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 ...

The company's search logo honors Mary Ann Shadd Cary ... In 1850, her family moved to Canada after the U.S. passed the Fugitive Slave Act. Three years later, Shadd Cary launched her newspaper ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Canada Post stamp featuring Mary Ann Shadd, a ground-breaking abolitionist and newspaper publisher who ran a school in Windsor, was unveiled in Chatham, Ont., on Tuesday. (Meg Roberts/CBC) Shadd was ...