num_pages: 136
description: "... 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 HistoryIn 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.
language: English
title: Maria W. Stewart: America's First Black Woman Political Writer : Essays and Speeches
titlecomplete: Maria W. Stewart: America's First Black Woman Political Writer : Essays and Speeches (Blacks in the Diaspora)
genres: Essays, Politics, Activism, African American, Feminism, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 36
publisher: Indiana Univ Pr