22 Facts About Isaac Shadd

Isaac D Shadd was a newspaper publisher, printer, politician, and bookkeeper.

Isaac Shadd was involved in the planning of the John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry and led the Chatham Vigilance Committee to rescue Sylvanus Demarest in 1858.

Isaac Shadd returned to the United States and served as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era from 1871 until 1876.

Isaac Shadd was raised Catholic as one of thirteen children of Harriet Burton Parnell and Abraham D Shadd, both of whom were abolitionists.

Isaac Shadd's father was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the paternal great-grandson of a Hessian soldier and a free black woman, Mrs Elizabeth Jackson.

Isaac Shadd was the president of the society at the Third Annual Convention of the Negro People held from June 3 to June 13,1833.

Isaac Shadd lived at his parents' house in West Chester in 1850.

Isaac Shadd married Amelia Freeman, who was born free in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, around 1833.

Isaac Shadd went to Ohio to study in the Ladies' Preparatory department of Oberlin College by 1849.

Isaac Shadd attended the National Emigration Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1854.

Isaac Shadd arrived in Chatham in 1856 and the school opened in 1859.

Isaac Shadd organized a number of religious, lecture and literary events for the community and contributed to The Provincial Freeman.

Isaac Shadd met Amelia in Ontario between 1854 and 1857 and they were married by 1861.

Isaac and Mary Ann Shadd ran The Provincial Freeman in Chatham, Ontario.

Isaac Shadd hosted a convention for John Brown in 1858 and he became the secretary of Brown's League of Liberty.

Isaac Shadd planned an insurrection that would do away with slavery.

Isaac Shadd moved his family back to the United States and they lived in Davis Bend, Mississippi by 1870.

Isaac Shadd worked as a bookkeeper for Benjamin T Montgomery.

Isaac Shadd moved to Vicksburg, Mississippi, where in 1871 he was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives.

Isaac Shadd founded and was president of the Shadd Training College beginning in 1875.

Isaac Shadd was appointed route agent for the United States Postal Service between Vicksburg and Memphis in 1883, a position that he held until 1885.

Isaac Shadd was a principal in two schools in Vicksburg.