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| | Frontiers: Finding a place: Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the dilemmas of black migration to Canada, 1850-1870 |
 | | Shadd's work also reveals the importance of black nationality as a concept in the narrative of black women's history in the United States and Canada at the same time that it demonstrates the importance of black women's work in the creation of black community and national identity. |
| | Mary Ann Shadd, teacher, abolitionist, and promoter of black emigration to Canada, left the United States in September 1851 for the small farming village of Windsor, Ontario.' She lived in Canada for eleven years, working as a teacher of fugitive slaves and as the primary editor of the Provincial Freeman, a black Canadian newspaper. |
| | It is well known that the Fugitive bill makes insecure every northern colored man,-free are alike at the risk of being sent south,-consequently, many persons, always free, will leave the United States, and settle in Canada, and other countries, who would have remained had not that law been enacted. |
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