Mary Slessor was born in 1848 in Scotland. She was the second of seven children. She credited much of her good character to her upbringing from her deeply religious mother. Her father ran a shoe making business that did not go well, he became an alcoholic, which resulted hardship and poverty for the family. Mary started working to help provide for her family at a very young age, her wages became the primary source of the family income, and she worked up to ten hours a day to make ends meet for her family. She became a Christian at a young age. She enjoyed going to church; it was a getaway from her unhappy life at home. Her older brother, who was planning to go as a missionary, died. Mary decided to go in his place. She embarked on her missionary journey to Calabar in 1875 where her battle for Christianity began. She fell sick from malaria several times and eventually passed away in 1915, nearly forty years after coming to Africa, at the age of 66. Mary Slessor has become an inspiration to all who hear her story. She was not only a pioneer missionary, but also an activist for women in general. Witchcraft and Superstition were prevalent in Calabar when she arrived there because traditional society had been torn apart by the slave trade. Human sacrifice routinely followed the death of a village chief. The custom that broke her heart most was 'twin-murder’. The tribes thought that twins were a result of a curse caused by an evil spirit that fathered one of the children. Both babies were brutally murdered by breaking their backs and cutting them up into pieces and left in the evil forest for the insects and wild animal to devour, the mother was ostracized and kicked out of society. Her missionary viewed the ritual murder of twins as an abomination. Her dedicated effort to prevent this absurd superstition was an outstanding success. She successfully fought against the killing of twins at infancy. One of the factors that made her mission successful was her being white. The women she rescued treated her like she was a god, the children touched her skin and she let them play with her hair because they had never seeing any one who looked like that. Mary was able to relate to the women of Calabar because during her stay, she endured the loss of her family members and had to deal with several struggles during her life before and after she came to Africa.