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, th...

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