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Maria W. Stewart

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February 06, 1880

Maria W. Stewart (Maria Miller) (1803 – February 6, 1880) was an African-American journalist, lecturer, abolitionist, and women's rights activist. Although her career was brief it was very striking. Stewart started off her career as a domestic servant. She later became an activist.

She was the first American woman to speak to a mixed audience of men and women, whites and black. She was also the first African- American woman to lecture about women’s rights, make a public anti-slavery speech and the first African-American woman to make public lectures. Stewart has had two pamphlets published in the Liberator, including "Religion and Pure Principles of Morality, the Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build". In this pamphlet she advocated aboliti ...more

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	Let Nobody Turn Us Around: Voices of Resistance, Reform, and Renewal by Manning Marable (Editor), Leith Mullings (Editor), John S. Rock (Contributor) 4.37 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spiritual Narratives by Sue E. Houchins (Editor), Maria W. Stewart (Contributor), Jarena Lee (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Meditations of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meditations From the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart, (Widow of the Late James W. Stewart,) Now Matron of the Freedmen's Hospital, and Presented in 1832 to the First African Baptist Church and Society... it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Sit Ye Here and Die? really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Address at the African Masonic Hall 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul. Brilliant wit will shine, come from whence it will; and genius and talent will not hide the brightness of its lustre.”
― Maria W. Stewart

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