Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary (Q490582)
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Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary
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Mary Ann Camberton Shadd
Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary
Free before 13th Amendment. A teacher, lecturer, and writer who emigrated to Canada with her parents to avoid the dangers posed by the Fugitive Slave Act. Later returned to the U.S. to recruit Union soldiers.