Stewart, Maria W., 1803-1879
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Name (Latin)
Stewart, Maria W., 1803-1879
Other forms of name
Stewart, Maria W. (Miller), Mrs
Date of birth
1803
Date of death
1879-12-17
Place of birth
Hartford (Conn.)
Place of death
Washington (D.C.)
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Black nationalism
Associate group
Women's Anti-Slavery Convention
Black Women's Literary Society
Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum
Women's Right's movement
Occupation
Journalists
Orators
Essayists
Educators
Abolitionists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
female
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed September 15, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Stewart, Maria W; Maria Miller; essayist, black nationalist, educator; born 1803 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States; publicly professed her faith in Christ (1831); her religious conversion catalyzed her political life; initiated Women's Right's movement; attended Women's Anti-Slavery Convention, New York (1837); was a member of a black women's literary society; served as matron of the Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum, a refuge for Civil War veterans (1870s); died Dec. 1879 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
- Lepore, J. These truths, ©2018:page 206 (Maria Stewart was the first woman in the United States to deliver an address before a "mixed" audience -- an audience of both women and men, which happened to have been, as well, a audience of both blacks and whites) page 207 (After 1835, [Stewart] never again spoke in public. By then, Maria Stewart had stopped delivering speeches, an act that many women, both black and white, considered too radical for the narrow ambit of republican motherhood)
- We claim our rights, 1987:CIP t.p. (Maria W. Stewart) pref. (first American woman to lecture in public on political themes and leave extant copies of her texts; a pioneer black abolitionist)
- LC man. cat.(hdg.: Stewart, Maria W. (Miller), Mrs.)
- Black women in America, 1993:p. 1113 (Stewart, Maria W.; public school teacher at N.Y.C., Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.; abolitionist; public speaker; b. 1803 at Hartford, Conn.; d. 12/17/1879)
- African American women, 1993(Stewart, Maria W. (Miller); first black woman to do public speaking in U.S.; married James W. Stewart in 1826 and took his middle initial as well; b. 1803 at Hartford, Conn.; d. 12/17/1879 at Washington, D.C.)