Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century, New Edition

by Jane Rhodes

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 importance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253067952
• ISBN13: 9780253067951
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"