Mary Maillard
Independent scholar and documentary editor
Mary Maillard is an independent scholar and documentary editor from Vancouver, British Columbia. Her primary interests are in Black family history focusing on free people of color in antebellum Philadelphia and North Carolina. Her edition Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911 (2017) won Honorable Mention for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Book Award in 2018. She is currently working on a biography of Louisa Burr, daughter of Vice President Aaron Burr.
Articles by
Dating Harriet Jacobs: Why Birthdates Matter to Historians
Image Ownership: Midnightdreary (CC BY-SA 3.0) In the article that follows British Columbian historian and documentary editor, Mary Maillard, explores...
George W. Lowther (1822-1898)
George W. Lowther, barber, abolitionist, equal school rights activist, and Massachusetts legislator, was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina,...
Francis Johnson [Frank J.] Webb (1828-1894)
Francis Johnson Webb, newspaper editor, educator, equal rights activist, and the second published African American novelist, was born free on...
Julia Ann Chinn (ca.1790-1833)
Julia Chinn, the putative common-law wife of 9th US vice president Richard Mentor Johnson (1780-1850), was born an octoroon slave...
Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1781-1853) and Marie-Rose Juliette Gaston (1786-1851)
Pierre Toussaint, a New York society hairdresser, devout Catholic, and wealthy philanthropist, was born a third-generation elite house slave at...
Louisa Matilda Jacobs (1833-1917)
Louisa “Lulu” Matilda Jacobs, teacher, equal rights activist, and entrepreneur, was born a slave in Edenton, North Carolina, on October...
Louisa Burr (1788-1878)
On August 24, 2019, African American abolitionist John Pierre Burr was honored and formally acknowledged by the Aaron Burr Family...
Mary Virginia Wood (Forten) (1815-1840)
Mary Virginia Wood is best known as the mother of poet, diarist, and abolitionist Charlotte Forten, but she was also...
Regis Korchinski-Paquet (1990-2020)
Hundreds gathered in Toronto for the first annual Regis Korchinski-Paquet Memorial Walk for Justice, organized by Black Lives Matter on...
Caleb Tubila Njoko (1993-2020)
On May 5, 2020, 26-year-old Caleb Tubila Njoko fell from the 15th floor balcony of his mother’s London, Ontario, apartment...
Jamal Francique (1991-2020)
Jamal Derek Jr. Francique, a 28-year-old father of two who was active in the Mississauga music scene, was gunned down...
D’Andre Anthony Campbell (1993-2020)
On April 6, 2020, 26-year-old D’Andre Campbell of Brampton, Ontario, called 911 for help because he was in mental distress...
