Ann Maria Jackson
Her two eldest children later reunited with the family, and the youngest, Albert Jackson, became the first African American to work as a letter carrier in Toronto.
[2] She had nine children with her husband John Jackson, a free blacksmith,[4] and they lived in Milford, Delaware.
[5] Jackson was allowed to live with her husband while her children were young, saving Brown the cost of providing food for the family.
As the children grew up they became valuable property; Brown could hire them out and keep the wages, or he could sell them outright.
[3] Thomas Garrett, just outside of Wilmington, Delaware, arranged for a horse-drawn carriage that took them part of the way to Philadelphia.
[2][4] They stopped at the Riverview House, the home of Thomas Garrett's brother Edward in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania (west of Philadelphia).
[4] The fire of freedom obviously burned with no ordinary fervor in the breast of this slave mother, or she never would have ventured with the burden of seven children, to escape from the hell of Slavery.After Philadelphia they traveled along a network of Underground Railroad stations through Pennsylvania and New York.
[2] I am happy to inform you that Mrs. Jackson and her interesting family of seven children arrived safe and in good health and spirits at my house in St. Catharines, on Saturday evening last... With sincere pleasure I provided for them comfortable quarters till this morning, when they left for Toronto.
"In Toronto, Willis and Henning took the Jacksons to the home of Lucie and Thornton Blackburn, who were previously enslaved in Kentucky.
[2][7] Henning, Willis and the Blackburns helped the Jacksons get jobs, housing, clothing, and the necessities to become established on their own.
[4] James Henry, her eldest son, ran away from Frederica, Delaware where he was owned and was about to be sold by Joseph Brown.
Attendees included members of the black community, newspaper publishers, and former mayors and aldermen.
A public inquiry was held to determine why Jackson was demoted, after which he began to deliver mail as hired,[10] after intervention from Sir John A.
[2][12] The image of Jackson and her children was published on April 2, 1874, in The Nation, Lutheran Observer, Friends Review, and the New York Daily Tribune carrying the title The Father Died in the Poor House, a Raving Maniac, Caused by the Sale of Two of His Children.
