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Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a courageous and outspoken nineteenth-century African American who used the press and public speaking to fight slavery and oppression in the United States and Canada. Part of the small free black elite who used their education and limited freedoms to fight for the end of slavery and racial oppression, Shadd Cary is best known as the first African American woman to publish and edit a newspaper in North America. But her i...

Excerpt from Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly, Vol. 22: Art Issue, November, 1943Orchids TO Mr. Howard Thomas for taking full charge Of the cover, typography and lay-out of this issue of the quarterly. Orchids to Mr. Thomas' art students for their clever illustrations scattered over the quarterly. Orchids to our Advertising Committee, Betty Lou (houck) Smith, '34, and Jean (chalmers) Smith, '38, for the impressive array of advertisements which yo...

Excerpt from Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly, Vol. 22: Art Issue, November, 1943 Orchids TO Mr. Howard Thomas for taking full charge Of the cover, typography and lay-out of this issue of the quarterly. Orchids to Mr. Thomas' art students for their clever illustrations scattered over the quarterly. Orchids to our Advertising Committee, Betty Lou (houck) Smith, '34, and Jean (chalmers) Smith, '38, for the impressive array of advertisements which ...

Jane Rhodes is professor and department head of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a courageous and outspoken 19th-century African American who used the press and public speaking to fight slavery and oppression in the United States and Canada. Her life provides a window on the free black experience, emergent black nationalisms, African Americans' gender ideologies, and the formation of a black public sphere.

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