On May 14, 1857, Mary Ann Shadd Cary published an editorial in the Provincial Freeman, one of Canada’s first anti-slavery newspapers. An African American who fled to Canada after the Fugitive Slave Act, Shadd was the first Black woman publisher in North America. Her May 14 article argued for Black self-reliance, education, and migration as resistance. Her cross-border activism helped shape both Canadian abolitionist thought and post-slavery discourse in the Americas.
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