Monday, June 29, 2009
Maria Stewart
The first African American woman that was a political writer. She first spoke to the New England Anti-Slavery Society on September 21, 1832, which was an audience of blacks and whites. Maria advocated education and economic opportunity for African-Americans. She recieved religious education as an orphan and servant girl. Basically she educated herself. She worked as a school teacherand then retired. She died in 1879.
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