Mary Ann Shadd Cary

A Note on the Cover Illustration Acknowledgments Introduction - "We Should Do More, and Talk Less" 0.1 Life and Context 0.2 Reading Shadd Cary's Radicalism 0.3 Two-Faced Archive 0.4 Chapters and Sources Chapter 1 - "Our Women Must Speak Out; The Boys Must Have Trades": Visions of Racial Uplift 1.1 Letter to Frederick Douglass, North Star, March 23, 1849 1.2 Letter to George Whipple, November 27, 1851 1.3 "The Colored People in Canada - Do They Need Help?" Liberator, March 4, 1853 1.4 A Good Boarding House Greatly Needed by the Colored Citizens of Canada," Provincial Freeman, December 6, 1856 1.5 "For the attention of all Temperance reformers, Legislators, Ministers of religion &c," Provincial Freeman, March 25, 1857 1.6 "Meetings at Philadelphia," Provincial Freeman, April 18, 1857 1.7 "School for ALL!!" Provincial Freeman, June 13, 1857 1.8 "An Unmitigated Falsehood," Weekly Anglo-African, February 15, 1862 1.9 "Editorial- by M. A. S. Cary (Editor)," Provincial Freeman, Spring Edition 1866 1.10 "Letter from Baltimore," New National Era, August 10, 1871 1.11 "Letter from Wilmington, DE," New National Era, August 31, 1871 1.12 "Letters to the People - No. 1 Trade for Our Boys!" New National Era, March 21, 1872 1.13 "Letters to the People - No. 2 Trade for Our Boys!" New National Era, April 11, 1872 1.14 "Should We Economise?", n.d. 1.15 *"Diversified Industries a National Necessity," n.d.* Chapter 2 - "Our Leaders Do Not Take the Women into Consideration": Empowering Black Women 2.1 "Woman's Rights," Provincial Freeman, May 6, 1854 2.2 "To our Readers West," Provincial Freeman, June 9, 1855 2.3 "Adieu," Provincial Freeman, June 30, 1855 2.4 "Editorial Cor. for the Provincial Freeman," Provincial Freeman, April 26, 1856 2.5 Sermon, April 6, 1858 2.6 "Report on Woman's Labor," Proceedings of the Colored National Labor Convention, 1870 2.7 "A First Vote, Almost," 1871 2.8 "Would Woman Suffrage Have a Tendency to Elevate the Moral Tone of Politics," n.d. 2.9 "Speech to the Judiciary Committee Re: The Rights of Women to Vote," January 21, 1874 2.10 "The Last Day of the 43 Congress," circa March 1875 2.11 "Petition of Mary Shadd Cary, a citizen of Washington, District of Columbia, praying for the removal of her political disabilities," Petitions and Memorials, 45th Congress, circa 1878 2.12 Colored Women's Progressive Franchise Association Minutes, February 9, 1880 2.13 Colored Women's Progressive Franchise Association Statement of Purpose, circa February 1880 2.14 "Advancement of Women," New York Age, November 11, 1887 Chapter 3 - "The Men Who Love Liberty Too Well to Remain in the States": Enabling Emigration 3.1 Letter to Isaac Shadd, September 16, 1851 3.2 A Plea for Emigration; or, Notes of Canada West, in its Moral, Social, and Political Aspect: with Suggestions Respecting Mexico, West Indies, and Vancouver's Island, for the Information of Colored Emigrants 3.2.1 Introductory Remarks 3.2.2 A Plea for Emigration 3.2.2.1 British America 3.2.2.2 The Canadas - Climate, etc. 3.2.2.3 Soil,-Timber,-Clearing Lands. 3.2.2.4 Grains, Potatoes, Turnips, &C. 3.2.2.5 Garden Vegetables, &C. 3.2.2.6 Fruits-Vines-Berries. 3.2.2.7 Domestic Animals-Fowls-Game. 3.2.2.8 Prices of Land in The Country-City Property, &C. 3.2.2.9 Labor-Trades. 3.2.2.10 Churches-Schools. 3.2.2.11 Settlements,-Dawn,-Elgin,-Institution,-Fugitive Home. 3.2.2.12 By-laws. 3.2.2.13 Political Rights-Election Law-Oath-Currency. 3.2.2.14 Articles Exempt from Duty. 3.2.2.15 Currency of Canada. 3.2.2.16 Abstract of Law of Succession in Upper Canada 3.2.2.17 The Thirty Thousand Colored Freemen of Canada. 3.2.2.18 The French and Foreign Population. 3.2.2.19 Recapitulation. 3.2.2.20 The British West Indies-Mexico-South America-Africa. 3.2.2.21 Mexico. 3.2.2.22 Vancouver's Island-Concluding Remarks. 3.3 "Our Free Colored Emigrants," Provincial Freeman, May 20, 1854 3.4 "The Emigration Convention," Provincial Freeman, July 5, 1856 3.5 "The Things Most Needed," Provincial Freeman, April 25, 1857 3.6 "Haytian Emigration," Weekly Anglo-African, September 28, 1861 Chapter 4 - Contextualizing Shadd Cary 4.1 "Miss Shadd's Pamphlet," North Star, June 8, 1849 - Excerpt of "Hints to the Colored People of the North" 4.2 "Schools in Canada," Voice of the Fugitive, July 15, 1852 4.3 "For Frederick Douglass' Paper," Frederick Douglass' Paper, January 4, 1855 4.4 "From Our Philadelphia Correspondent," Provincial Freeman, December 1, 1855 4.5 "For the Provincial Freeman," Provincial Freeman, December 22, 1855 4.6 "Anti-Slavery Lectures," Provincial Freeman, March 29, 1856 4.7 "Meeting of Colored Canadians," Pine and Palm, April 3, 1862 4.8 Letter from Martin Delany, February 24, 1864 4.9 Letter from Frederick Douglass, July 4, 1871 4.10 "Mrs. Mary A. S. Cary," New National Era, July 13, 1871 4.11 "Teachers Assignment. 'One by One the Roses Fall.'", September 20, 1884 4.12 Attorney General Endorsement, Washington Bee, September 27, 1884 4.13 "Mrs. Carey in Mississippi," New York Freeman, April 11, 1885 4.14 "Locals," Washington Bee, June 10, 1893 Conclusion - "Why Not Go Farther?" Recommended Reading List Bibliography Index