The Shadd family represents one of the premier Black

Families of Delaware whose contributions are etched in the first state's history. Their children had successful careers as lawyers, journalists, professors and politicians.

Perhaps the most prominent was Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the eldest.

When the lists of African American firsts are read, Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s name is everywhere, a woman who was eager for change and demanded action, not rhetoric.

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“We have been holding conventions for years — we have been assembling together and whining over our difficulties and afflictions, passing resolutions on resolutions to any extent. But it does really seem that we have made but little progress considering our resolves,” she wrote in a letter in 1848 to the abolitionist and African American statesman Frederick Douglass.

Douglass printed the letter, an unapologetic critique of the abolitionist movement, and it became Shadd Cary’s first published work.

Shadd Cary was the first Black woman in North America to edit and publish a newspaper, The Provincial Freeman — Canada's first anti-slavery publication in 1853. “Devoted to antislavery, temperance and general literature” was the paper's slogan.

Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a teacher, journalist, lawyer, and activist in the abolition and women’s suffrage movements. She was also the first Black woman newspaper publisher in North America.

She published several pieces displaying Canada as a safe haven for former slaves and free Blacks and urged them to take the journey north.

"Mary Ann wasn't afraid of anybody. She stopped a taxi, a horse-run coach, at a time when they did not give rides to people with darker skin," said Lora Englehart, a former Wilmington resident, who had nominated Shadd Cary's name for the Delaware Women's Hall of Fame in 1997 and the National Women's Hall of Fame in New York in 1998, after she read extensive literature about her.

"Men would try to discredit her, to get her to be quiet but she wouldn't," Englehart said.

After the Civil War ended, Shadd Cary settled in Washington and graduated from Howard University Law School as one of the nation’s first Black female law students. She also taught there.

She thrust herself into the suffrage movement in 1874 and addressed the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee as part of a group of women petitioning for the right to vote, years before women finally exercised that right in 1920.

The Shadd Family historic marker was unveiled at Spencer Plaza in Wilmington with more than 90 people in attendance, including Gov. John Carney, descendants of the Shadd family, Lora Englehart, Lt. Governor Bethany Hall-Long, members of the General Assembly, the City of Wilmington, and the Delaware Historical Society

At a time when one's skin color meant the difference between life and death, Abraham Shadd's family broke down barriers, stood against injustice and influenced Delaware's African American history through their tenacity and sheer force of will.

"Abraham was like the standard-bearer, he led by example and passed that on through his children and you could just see that through the years," said Janmichael Shadd Graine, great-great-great-grandson of Abraham Shadd, at the marker's inauguration. "To see the recognition they have here, we are just elated

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