A bust of renowned abolitionist and Canada’s first Black female newspaper publisher Mary Ann Shadd (Cary) stands in tribute at B.M.E. Freedom Park in Chatham. Shadd was the founder of The Provincial Freeman, which was published in Chatham for a time prior to the American Civil War.
A bust of renowned abolitionist and Canada’s first Black female newspaper publisher Mary Ann Shadd (Cary) stands in tribute at B.M.E. Freedom Park in Chatham. Shadd was the founder of The Provincial Freeman, which was published in Chatham for a time prior to the American Civil War.
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