WOMEN IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1800, MARY ANN SHADD CARY P/27

 

In this blog I will continue to story of Mary Ann Shadd Cary. She lived from 1823- 1893. In 1874, Mary Ann  and a group of women addressed the House Judiciary Committe regarding women's right to vote (today it is once again an important topic). 

She continued to support Canada's suffragists as well, attending a rally in 1881. Despite her boundary-pushing contributions to the pursuit of justice and equity for all people, Mary Ann's legacy largely went ignored in the decades following her death in 1893.

Shadd Cary gave to the world a hundred instances of female heroism, any one of which is sufficient to rescue her name from oblivion and place it in the category of similar characters like Grace Darling, Dorothy Dix, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman or Florence Nightingale," wrote the unknown author of "The Foremost Coloured Canadian Pioneer in 1850," one of the many documents contained in the Moorland-Springarn Research Center's Mary Ann Shadd Cary Collection