Mary Ann Shadd Cary

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Term Paper Title	Mary Ann Shadd Cary
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary

     In the early 1800’s, slavery was legal in some states in the United States of America, but illegal in Canada. Slaves could free themselves from bondage by escaping and fleeing to a free state or Canada. But the journey along the way was risky and not many survived, many were recaptured, returned to their owner and put back to work. Along the way to a free state, fugitives had to have a place where they could eat and sleep in secret, called stations and the people who ran these stations were station masters. Many people helped fugitive slaves escape from bondage, some such as Mary Ann Shadd.
     Mary Ann Shadd was born on October 9 1823, in Wilmington Delaware. Her parents, Abraham Shadd and Harriet Parnell Shadd, were free blacks; therefore their children were free blacks. The Shadd’s were a respectable and hard working family in a risky business, they took a terrible risk by hiding fugitive slaves in the basement of their home. The Shadds were station masters, their home a station of the underground railroad. The Shadds believed that all blacks would achieve equality with their white neighbors through education, hard work and thrift. The Shadds wanted what was best for their children, however the state of Delaware did not allow black children to attend school. So at the age of 10, Mary Shadd moved to West Chester, a free state of Pennsylvania, with her family. There she completed her education and moved back to Delaware and began a school for black children.
     In 1850 the Fugitive Slave Act was put into action, and the Shadd family was put at extreme risk, they were not safe from legal kidnappings. Fugitives looked toward Canada West(Ontario) for help because escaped slaves could not be legally removed from Canadian soil. As a result to the Fugitive Slave Act, the underground railroad now ended in Canada West, free blacks and fugitive slaves now poured into Canada. Since it was against the law to teach a slave to read and write, they were eager to learn when they reached Canada, more teachers and school were needed. In 1851 Mary moved to Windsor Ontario to set up a school. Henry and Mary Bibb were leaders of a local black community, and they had invited Mary to come and set up school. No quicker then Mary had set up school, she made enemies with Henry and Mary Bibb.
     All though many people were trying to help the fugitive slaves, many people had different views on what should happen. Some people believed that slaves should go to Africa, ...

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