Mary Ann Camberton Shadd is another African American lost in the annals of American History. What makes her so special, when so many people of African American descent were purposefully lost in a whitewashed fabricated Colonial history? As this continues today, it’s more important than ever that we shine a light on stories like the one of Mary Ann Camberton Shadd.Â
Born in Wilmington, Delaware on October 9, 1823. At that time Delaware was a slave state, but her parents Abraham Doras Shadd and Harriet Burton Parnell were free. They were active abolitionists who used their home as a safe house on the Underground Railroad. Mary Ann was the eldest of 13 children, moved with her family to West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1833, and there she attended a Quaker school since it was illegal to teach Black children in Delaware. Following her education, Mary opened a school for Black children in 1840 and taught in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey.
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