Wilmington, Delaware (October 9, 1823 – June 5, 1893) age 79 yrs

Mary Ann Shadd Cary was an African Canadian anti-slavery activist. She was also a journalist, publisher, educator, and lawyer. She became the first female African American newspaper editor in North America. Additionally, she was the second African American woman in the United States to earn a law degree. Cary started the Black newspaper ‘The Provincial Freeman’, a weekly publication for African Americans, especially escaped enslaved. She started the paper in Canada and wrote many of the articles herself. Her father worked for the abolitionist newspaper, ‘The Liberator’ run by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.