Stewart, Maria W., 1803-1879
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- 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.)
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Maria W. Stewart (née Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was an American writer, lecturer, teacher, and activist from Hartford, Connecticut. She is widely recognized as one of the first women in the United States to speak publicly about abolition and women's rights, breaking barriers for both Black and female voices in the early 19th century. Stewart's work appeared in The Liberator, where she published two influential pamphlets: "Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality, The Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build" (1831) (which urged the abolition of slavery and called for Black self-determination and autonomy) and "Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria Stewart" (1832). Her brief but impactful public speaking career concluded after a controversial address in 1833, yet her advocacy was foundational for later reformers. After retiring from lecturing, Stewart continued her commitment to education and service, teaching in public schools and later serving as head matron at Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. Stewart remained a pioneer for justice and equality until her death in 1879.
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