| A | B |
| Delaware | the state of Mary Ann's birth |
| Canada | the country to which she moved |
| Provincial Freeman | the newspaper she edited |
| Quaker | the early school she attended |
| Washington | the University she attended |
| Thomas | Mary Ann's husband |
| Linton | Mary Ann's son |
| Sarah | Mary Ann's daughter |
| sixty | her age when she died |
| twelve | the number of her siblings |
| Frederick Douglass | civil rights leader |
| Susan B. Anthony | helped to get the vote for women |
| lawyer | She studied to become this. |
| determination | characteristic of Mary Ann |
| school teacher | She worked as this to support her family. |
| emigration | leaving a country to live elsewhere |
| fugitive | a person who runs away |
| mulatto | a person of mixed race descent |
| eccentric | acting or thinking in an unusual way |
| Underground Railroad | how slaves fled to Canada |