Isaac Shadd

Isaac D. Shadd (1829 – March 15, 1896) was a newspaper publisher, printer, politician, and bookkeeper. He was raised Catholic as one of thirteen children of Harriet Burton Parnell and Abraham D. Shadd, both of whom were abolitionists. His father was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the paternal great-grandson of a Hessian soldier and a free black woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson. Abraham was a board member of the American Anti-Slavery Society and an agent for The Emancipator that was produced by the society. He was the president of the society at the Third Annual Convention of the Negro People held from June 3 to June 13, 1833. One of her instructors was Rev. Charles Avery.

Shadd and his sister Mary were both members of the Chatham Vigilance Committee that sought to prevent former slaves from being returned to the United States and brought back into slavery, such as the case of Sylvanus Demarest.

Back to the United States In the late 1850s, Shadd considered emigrating to the Niger Valley in Africa. It is not known when Amelia died, she was last known to be alive in 1886.