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Nov 18, 2020 · Maria W. Stewart (1803–Dec. 17, 1879) was a North American 19th-century Black activist and lecturer. The first United States-born woman of any race to give a political speech in public, she predated—and greatly influenced—later Black activists and thinkers such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.
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Maria W. Stewart (née Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was an American teacher, journalist, abolitionist and lecturer known for her role in the anti-slavery and women's rights movements in the United States.
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African-American activist who was the first American-born woman to speak on political themes to audiences of both men and women and probably the first African-American woman to speak in defense of women's rights.
Oct 24, 2011 · On February 27, 1833 Maria W. Stewart gave this speech before a racially integrated audience at the African Masonic Hall in Boston. AFRICAN RIGHTS and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States, and excite in his bosom a lively, deep, decided and heart-felt interest.
Jan 24, 2017 · One of those abolitionists, Maria Stewart, was one of her era’s most effective anti-slavery voices, breaking boundaries for women even as she advocated for an end to a brutal institution. Born...
Sep 11, 2020 · This article argues that Maria Stewart is an underappreciated abolitionist, and a worthy exponent of the Black views of the 1830s. Her work is compared with that of David Walker, Charlotte Forten, ...
Nov 4, 2020 · Maria W. Stewart was a African American teacher, lecturer and activist. She was one of the first American women of any race to speak to a "mixed" audience of men and women and the first African American woman to publish a political manifesto.
