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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Jane Rhodes. Mary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1998. Pp. xviii, 284. $39.95.

Surely Mary Ann Shadd Cary's life and work have not gone unnoticed in the literature on the nineteenth century. She has reaped attention in African-American, women's, and press history and has been presented as a plucky, progressive black female with a propensity for vibrancy and no less for vitriol. The unusual woman we witness on the pages of Jane Rhodes's book made her mark in many spheres, including education, the press, and the antislavery movement. Shadd Cary is best known for being the first black woman in North America to edit and publish a newspaper, the Provincial Freeman, which she circulated from Canada amid much opposition during the pre-Civil War years. 1

At the outset, it should be noted that this is a well-written, well-woven, and well-researched book. Rhodes's primary sources are practically impeccable. Guided by previous scholarship, including that of Jason Silverman, Rodger Straitmatter, and Frankie Hutton, Rhodes provides the first solid account of Shadd Cary's life and work. In so doing, she helps to propel her subject to greater academic accessibility and concomitantly to appropriate historical recognition. . . .

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