Maria W. Stewart - Wikipedia
WEBMaria 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.
Maria Stewart | Biography, Education, Speech, Writings, Husband ...
WEBMaria Stewart was an American writer, lecturer, teacher, and activist who was the first known American woman to lecture the public on the abolitionist movement. Her speeches and essays helped influence other people to work toward the educational and social advancement of African Americans.
Maria W. Stewart - U.S. National Park Service
WEBAbolitionist and women's rights advocate Maria W. Stewart was one of the first women of any race to speak in public in the United States. She was also the first Black American woman to write and publish a political manifesto. Her calls for Black people to resist slavery, oppression, and exploitation were radical.
Biography of Maria W. Stewart, Anti-Enslavement Activist
WEBNov 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 .
Maria Stewart: Abolitionist Dared to Speak Out on Slavery - TIME
WEBJan 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...
Maria W. Stewart - Archives of Women's Political Communication
WEBNov 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.
Maria W. Miller Stewart (1803-1879) - Blackpast
WEBFeb 11, 2007 · Maria W. Stewart, best known as one of the earliest female public speakers, was born Maria Miller in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1803. Her parents’ first names and occupations are not known. Stewart was orphaned by age five and became an indentured servant, serving a clergyman until she was fifteen.
(1832) Maria W. Stewart Advocates Education for African
WEBJan 24, 2007 · In September 1832, Maria W. Stewart delivered at Boston’s Franklin Hall one of the first public lectures ever given by an American woman. Her speech, directed to the women of the African American Female Intelligence Society, called on black women to acquire equality through education.
Maria W. Stewart | Encyclopedia.com
WEBMay 29, 2018 · Maria W. Miller Stewart, essayist, teacher, and political activist, is thought to be the first American woman to give public lectures. Stewart is known for four powerful speeches, delivered in Boston in the early 1830s — a time when no woman, black or white, dared to address an audience from a public platform.
Stewart, Maria W. (1803–1879) - Encyclopedia.com
WEBAfrican-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.