A Delaware family's contributions to the abolitionist movement

In the United States and Canada in the 1800s may be little known today, but a historical marker unveiled during Black History Month will ensure they are not forgotten.

The Shadd family, who date to the 1700s in Wilmington, included Abraham Doras Shadd, a conductor on the Underground Railroad, and Mary Ann Shadd Cary, who among her many accomplishments was the first female Black newspaper publisher in America.

A cobbler by day and an abolitionist by night, Abraham Doras Shadd lived in Wilmington, Delaware in the 19th Century with his wife Harriet Parnell and their thirteen children.

Abraham Doras Shadd was born in Wilmington in 1801. He was a prominent abolitionist and civil rights activist.

Shadd strived for the civil rights of African Americans and later Afro-Canadians. He was a messiah for fugitive slaves and devoted his life to the abolitionist movement which sought the immediate end of slavery.

During the late 1820s, Shadd was a conductor on the Underground Railroad and had homes in Wilmington and West Chester, Pennsylvania. From those homes, he sheltered and assisted countless Black men in their Canadian pilgrimage who were being hunted, and hurried northward in their quest for freedom.

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A prominent public voice, Shadd actively spoke on behalf of abolition. He was a member of the American Anti-Slavery Society headquartered in Philadelphia, and in 1833 he was elected as the President of the National Convention for the Improvement of Free People of Color.

Shadd later became the first Black man to serve in public office in Canada after his family moved there following the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.

The Shadd Family historical marker is located at Spencer Plaza in Wilmington. It was unveiled this February with more than 90 people in attendance, including Gov. John Carney and direct descendants of Abraham Shadd.

The historical marker's unveiling took place earlier this month in Wilmington's Spencer Plaza, close to where the Shadd family lived. It was attended by more than 90 people, including Gov. John Carney and descendants of Abraham Shadd.

"Black stories are essential to the ongoing story of America, our faults, our struggles, our progress, our aspirations, the full story," Carney said at the marker's unveiling

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