{"id":543,"date":"2018-07-16T18:16:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T23:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/?page_id=543"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:54:06","slug":"f-d-shadd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/f-d-shadd\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac D. Shadd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Isaac D. Shadd (Warren County)<\/h2>\n

State House:\u00a0<\/strong>1872-1875
\nSpeaker of the House:<\/strong> 1874-1875<\/p>\n

Born:\u00a0<\/strong>1829 in Delaware
\nDied: <\/strong>March 15,\u00a01896 in Greenville, MS<\/p>\n

Newspaper editor, printer, and bookkeeper. First listed on the census in 1850, when he was living in West Chester, PA with his parents, abolitionists\u00a0Abraham D. Shadd<\/a> and\u00a0Harriet Burton Parnell<\/a>. His sister, Mary Ann Shadd Cary<\/a> (1823-1893), was a famous abolitionist, journalist, and educator in her own right.<\/p>\n

In 1858, at John Brown’s convention in Chatham, Ontario, Shadd became a secretary in Brown’s League of Liberty. He and his wife, Amelia, worked at the Chatham Mission School, and they appear on the 1861 census of Canada in Chatham. His occupation is “printer,” and hers is “school teacher.” Amelia had been a student at Oberlin College.<\/p>\n

By 1870, the family had moved to Davis Bend, Mississippi, where Amelia and their son Charlton are listed on the census. Isaac worked as a bookkeeper for B. T. Montgomery. Amelia served for some time as principal of Vicksburg’s Cherry Street School. Isaac and Amelia moved to Greenville, where they appear on the 1880 census. In 1883, Isaac was appointed route agent for the U.S. Mail between Memphis and Vicksburg. He was replaced by a Democrat in 1885.<\/p>\n

Isaac D. Shadd died in Greenville on Sunday, March 15, 1896.<\/p>\n

“The eldest son of black abolitionist Abraham D. Shadd, Isaac Shadd was born in Delaware and reared in Pennsylvania, where his family had moved because Delaware did not offer educational opportunities for blacks. With his sister, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, he was an active abolitionist and edited the\u00a0<\/em>Provincial Freeman in Canada, where his family lived during the 1850s. A friend of John Brown and Martin R. Delany, Shadd was connected with emigration projects in the late 1850s, and at one time planned to settle in the Niger Valley of Africa. He came to Mississippi in 1871 and was employed as a bookkeeper by Benjamin T. Montgomery at Davis Bend… Shadd edited the Greenville\u00a0<\/em>Herald, 1886-1889.”<\/em>
\n(Eric Foner,\u00a0Freedom\u2019s Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders during Reconstruction<\/em>, 1993)<\/p>\n

\"Signature
Signature of Isaac D. Shadd from an 1873 petition to Governor Powers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Links:<\/strong>
\n1857 editorial in the\u00a0Provincial Freeman<\/em><\/a>
\nWarren County African American Schools: Isaac & Amelia Shadd<\/a>
\nMary Ann Shadd Cary: The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century<\/a>
\nMary Ann Shadd Cary Collection at Howard University<\/a><\/p>\n

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Detroit Free Press, October 9, 1858<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Liberator, February 28, 1862<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Liberator, April 11, 1862<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Vicksburg<\/a>
Vicksburg Daily Times, October 31, 1871<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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New National Era, March 28, 1872<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vicksburg Daily Times, June 29, 1872<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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New National Era, March 13, 1873<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"New<\/a>
New National Era, January 29, 1874<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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New National Era, February 26, 1874<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Tributes<\/a>
Tributes to Charles Sumner, 1874<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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New National Era, April 16, 1874<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Vicksburg<\/a>
Vicksburg Herald, October 14, 1874<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Weekly<\/a>
Weekly Democrat-Times, Nov 21, 1874\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Weekly<\/a>
Weekly Mississippi Pilot, Jan 2, 1875<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Vicksburg<\/a>
Vicksburg Herald, February 26, 1875<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pittsburgh Weekly Gazette, Apr 26, 1875<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Weekly Mississippi Pilot, Oct 16, 1875<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Indianapolis Leader, July 31, 1880<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mississippian, January 23, 1883<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vicksburg Herald, November 1, 1885<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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American Noncon-formist, June 20, 1889<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Daily Commercial Herald, Mar 24, 1896<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Isaac D. Shadd (Warren County) State House:\u00a01872-1875 Speaker of the House: 1874-1875 Born:\u00a01829 in Delaware Died: March 15,\u00a01896 in Greenville, MS Newspaper editor, printer, and bookkeeper. First listed on the census in 1850, when he was living in West Chester, PA with his parents, abolitionists\u00a0Abraham D. Shadd and\u00a0Harriet Burton Parnell. His sister, Mary Ann Shadd … <\/p>\n

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