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  1. 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. A contributor to The Liberator ...

  2. Feb 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. She also attended Connecticut Sabbath schools ...

  3. Maria Stewart (born 1803, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.—died December 17, 1879, Washington, D.C.) 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 ...

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  4. Date of Death: December 17, 1879. Place of Burial: Washington, DC. Cemetery Name: Graceland Cemetery; Woodlawn Cemetery. Abolitionist 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.

  5. May 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.

  6. abolitionist. women's rights activist. Spouse. James W. Stewart. . . (m. 1826; died 1829) . Maria 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. The first known American woman to speak ...

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  8. Topic. Abolition. Maria Stewart. One of the first American women of any race to give a public address in the nineteenth century, Stewart was one of Boston’s prominent Black abolitionists who lived on the north slope of Beacon Hill in the 1830s. Maria Stewart (previously Maria Miller) was born free in Hartford, Connecticut in 1803.

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