Footsteps to Freedom 1999: Day Six

Update posted on Thu, Aug 19, 1999, at 2:40:01 PM Pacific Daylight Time.

The W.I.S.H. Centre
Chatham, Ontario

At the Woodstock Institute Sertoma Help Centre (W.I.S.H.) in Chatham, we were treated to a presentation by Gwen Robinson, a local historian of Black history. Mrs. Robinson has written a book, "Seek the Truth: A Story of Chatham's Black Community."

We learned a great deal, but one of the more fascinating stories was of local Mary Ann Shadd (Cary), the first Black woman newspaper editor and publisher. Her paper, the Provincial Freeman covered issues and news related to Ontario, and especially that of interest to the escapees living there. Her younger brother, Issac, eventually became a legislator in Mississippi during the late 1860's.

Later in the day, we were lucky enough to coincidentally run into the great grand niece of Mary Ann Shadd.

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