Maria W.Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches (Blacks in the Diaspora)

by Maria W . Stewart (Author), Marilyn Richardson (Author)

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  1987

  $27.13

  ... enthusiastic, well-written... read it if you want to be inspired by a truly heroic woman. -New Directions for Women

  ... the fullest account to date of Stewart's life and an excellent basis for understanding Stewart's work. -History

  This is informative and inspiring source material for today's scholars, lay readers, and `professionals'... -Journal of American History

  In gathering and introducing Stewart's works, Richardson provides an opportunity for readers to study the thoughts and words of this influential early black female activist, a forerunner to Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth and the first black American to lecture in defense of women's rights, placing her in the context of the swirling abolitionist movement.