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The only known photograph of Mary Ann Macham.

The only known photograph of Mary Ann Macham.

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Freedom for Christmas: the journey of an enslaved woman to Britain by Genevieve Johnson

A newly unveiled statue in North Shields is casting fresh light on the extraordinary life of Mary Ann Macham — a woman whose courage carried her from the brutality of slavery in Virginia to freedom on the banks of the River Tyne on Christmas Day 1831.