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Mary Ann Shadd was born a free black on October 9, in Wilmington, Delaware. When the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 in the United States threatened to return free northern blacks and escaped slaves to bondage, Shadd moved to Windsor, Ontario. In 1856, Mary married Thomas F. Cary of Toronto. They had two children, Sarah and Linton, and lived in Chatham, Ontario, where Mary continued to work on her newspaper and teach school. After Thomas died in 1860, Mary and her children returned to the United States.
Mary Ann Shadd died in Washington, DC.