mary ann shadd cary. mary ann shadd was born in wilmington, delaware. she was the daughter of abraham shadd. and the entire family was really involved with the underground railroad. his home in wilmington. his home in chester, pennsylvania. in chester county, pennsylvania, were all places of refuge for those running, escaping their captivity. well, mary ann early on showed a lot of promise. and in the north star, in january of 1849, martin delany would write about mary ann. and he would say. one of the up-and-coming stars he was saying. he said she has choice character. and she said miss shadd is the work now in press on the elevation of our people. at 25 years old she wrote a pamphlet called the "hints to colored people of the north." in this pamphlet she tells them that they should reject material things. they should create rather than buy. i want to point out this is a 25-year-old. they should manage their money responsibly. be independent, and be confident. now mary ann shadd cary its a champion within the organization. she does lead by example. aft

now mary ann shadd cary its a champion within the organization. she does lead by example. age the fugitive slave act of 1850, abraham shadd and his family move to canada. mary ann moves to canada as well. in canada, shadd becomes the first african elect owed official in canada. mary ann would establish an integrated school. she would write for a local paper, news papter run by african-american men. they would censor her work. she was a woman. chauvinism. she got fed up with it. so being independent and confident like she was she established her own newspaper. her own journal. the provincial friedman. the motto of the provincial freedman is self reliance is the true road to independence. mary ann shadd-cary was part of a community there in canada that was clearly a military outpost. and though many will refer to those going there in the 1850s as immigrationists trying to leave the united states, i would ask them to follow them in the 1860s during the civil war and find out where their feet are. i can track what somebody wants to do by what they're doing. but williams still i

when you examine who published his report, it's mary ann shadd-cary. she published his report after he came back. these were champions. they are champions in this model. mary ann shadd-cary, harriet tubbman, those who lead by example. another one of the champions in the era. i am going to call her a public relations kind of officer. a propagandaist, if you will. her name is francis ellen watkins, or francis ellen harper. born in maryland. she was actually raised in the family of her uncle, william watkins. the family was eventually forced to move from maryland because of his activities. francis ellen harper would write political essays and poems. in one of her political essays called, our greatest want. she says our greatest need is not gold or silver. but true men and true women. we have millions of our race in the prison house of slavery. but have not yet a single moses in freedom. so she is calling on those to take a stand. if you read it a little bit further, she often compares -- when she talks about of moe cease, she's talking about somebody who h

if you retd frederick douglas, martin delany, mary ann shadd-cary. they refer to john brown as a captain. what does that mean? john brown wrote his own constitution. he viewed himself in that way as a general. captains don't lead generals. captains are tactical, not strategic. this organization already had a plan, it was to end slavery in league with the constitution, not write a new constitution. however they found, they found tactical value in what john brown did. and any one subordinate to the captain they would encourage them to follow john brown. you have to be subordinate to the caption. it is tactical. you don't send strategically important folk on a tactical operation that may be a suicide mission. they do view john brown as a martyr. in many ways it was a suicide mission. onech ari can african-american. osborne perry anderson would return. he would return to chatham. originally from pennsylvania. he returns to chatham. when he returns to chatham. i would look to say he submitted this report. when you examine who published his report it is ma

study the legal league and not run into many of these personalities like a mariah stewart, like mary ann shadd cary, harriet tubman. they are major players. they're not just there. so you can't just mention them as showing up. these are highly competent and effective people. so you have to deal with them. so i decided in the lecture what i was going to do was deal with them as effective people within an organization that had a plan, and that executed their plan. and i've been researching this for a number of years. i would say i'm getting close. i would probably need to sit down and not have other things on my mind for a while to really put it -- kind of a sabbatical, to put it into a book. i have been working on this -- when i first started working on this, identifying this organization, i was -- it was the early '90s. i was at the advanced artillery officers school in ft. sill, oklahoma. and i did a battle study. i was an artillery officer with secondary m.o.s. as an intelligence officer. so i did a battle study on m.o.s.m.o -- m.o.s. is military occupational specialty, for those. i did a battle