# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-ann-shadd
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:17:02.522Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-ann-shadd"
name: "Mary Ann Shadd"
slug: "mary-ann-shadd"
description: "Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary was an American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. She was the first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada. She was also the second black woman to attend law school in the United States. Mary Shadd established the newspaper Provincial Freeman in 1853, which was published weekly in southern Ontario. It advocated equality, integration, and self-education for black people in Canada and the United States."
tagline: "American abolitionist (1823–1893)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Ann_Shadd.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1823-10-09"
deathDate: "1893-06-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.03906
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Mary Ann Shadd Cary"
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    title: "Mary Ann Shadd Cary"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Shadd"
    title: "Mary Ann Shadd"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Shadd"
    title: "Mary Ann Shadd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mary Ann Shadd"
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    title: "Mariyam Ann Shadd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Shadd_Cary"
    title: "Mary Ann Shadd Cary"
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    title: "Mary Ann Shadd Cary"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Shadd"
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    title: "Mary Ann Shadd"
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    title: "మేరీ ఆన్ షాడ్"
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    title: "میری این شیڈ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump