Maria W. Stewart
Essential Writings of a 19th Century Black Abolitionist
Published on 23. April 2025
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Maria W. Stewart was a trailblazing political philosopher and social reformer, who migrated from the Connecticut of her birth, south to Baltimore and then Washington, D.C. on the eve of the Civil War. Stewart was a free-born African American who became a teacher, journalist, lecturer, abolitionist, and women's rights activist. She is the first known American woman to offer political lectures before an interracial audience of men and woman.
Maria W. Stewart: Essential Writings of a 19th-Century Black Abolitionist offers the most comprehensive and contextually dynamic collection of Stewart's fascinating corpus to date. In addition to including an intellectual biography on this formidable female historical figure. Douglas A. Jones brings together Stewart's known essays, lectures, and fiction, including recently discovered texts, all of which directly influenced other major black abolitionist contemporaries, including Frederick Douglass and many others. The volume's extended introduction and detailed notes situate Stewart's then-radical political philosophy in the rich intellectual contexts in which she worked, including abolitionism, black nationalism, feminism, and sentimentalism.
Maria W. Stewart: Essential Writings of a 19th-Century Black Abolitionist offers the most comprehensive and contextually dynamic collection of Stewart's fascinating corpus to date. In addition to including an intellectual biography on this formidable female historical figure. Douglas A. Jones brings together Stewart's known essays, lectures, and fiction, including recently discovered texts, all of which directly influenced other major black abolitionist contemporaries, including Frederick Douglass and many others. The volume's extended introduction and detailed notes situate Stewart's then-radical political philosophy in the rich intellectual contexts in which she worked, including abolitionism, black nationalism, feminism, and sentimentalism.
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Readers should attend closely to Jones' footnotes; they are thorough and meticulous, rich with a range of sources and explanatory material, demonstrating the depth and breadth of Jones' research. It is in the footnotes where one can find hints to Jones' thinking, if not in the design of the text itself. * Shirley J. Yee, New England Quarterly *More details
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New York
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Douglas A. Jones is Associate Professor of English, Theater Studies, and African and African American Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Pragmatics of Democracy: A Political Theory of African American Literature before Emancipation.
Content
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Gender Theory
Contextual Works
1. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIV
2. Angelina Grimke, Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (selections)
3. Louisa Piquet and Hiram Mattison, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (selections)
4. Alexander Crummell, "The Black Woman of the South: Her Neglects and Her Needs"
5. Anna Julia Cooper, "Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race"
Stewart's Works
6. "Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall"
7. "An Address Delivered Before the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston"
8. "Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston"
Part Two: Racial Ethics
Contextual Works
9. David Walker, Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America (selections)
10. "Zillah" (Sarah Mapps Douglass) writings published in The Liberator
11. Hosea Easton A Treatise On the Intellectual Character, and Civil and Political Condition of the Colored People of the U. States; And the Prejudice Exercised Towards Them; With A Sermon on the Duty of the Church To Them (selections)
12. Selections from Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Stewart's Works
13. "Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality"
14. "Cause for Encouragement"
15. "An Address Delivered at The African Masonic Hall"
16. "The Proper Training of Children"
Part Three: Literary Productions
Contextual Works
17. Jarena Lee, The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee (selections)
18. William J. Wilson ("Ethiop"), "From Our Brooklyn Correspondent"
19. Frances Ellen Watkins (Harper), "Two Offers" and "Aunt Chloe's Politics"
20. Charlotte Forten, "Life on the Sea Islands"
Stewart's Works
21. Meditation VI
22. "The Negro's Complaint"
23. "The First Stage of Life"
24. "Sufferings During the War"
Index
Introduction
Part One: Gender Theory
Contextual Works
1. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIV
2. Angelina Grimke, Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (selections)
3. Louisa Piquet and Hiram Mattison, Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (selections)
4. Alexander Crummell, "The Black Woman of the South: Her Neglects and Her Needs"
5. Anna Julia Cooper, "Womanhood: A Vital Element in the Regeneration and Progress of a Race"
Stewart's Works
6. "Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall"
7. "An Address Delivered Before the Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston"
8. "Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address to Her Friends in the City of Boston"
Part Two: Racial Ethics
Contextual Works
9. David Walker, Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America (selections)
10. "Zillah" (Sarah Mapps Douglass) writings published in The Liberator
11. Hosea Easton A Treatise On the Intellectual Character, and Civil and Political Condition of the Colored People of the U. States; And the Prejudice Exercised Towards Them; With A Sermon on the Duty of the Church To Them (selections)
12. Selections from Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Stewart's Works
13. "Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality"
14. "Cause for Encouragement"
15. "An Address Delivered at The African Masonic Hall"
16. "The Proper Training of Children"
Part Three: Literary Productions
Contextual Works
17. Jarena Lee, The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee (selections)
18. William J. Wilson ("Ethiop"), "From Our Brooklyn Correspondent"
19. Frances Ellen Watkins (Harper), "Two Offers" and "Aunt Chloe's Politics"
20. Charlotte Forten, "Life on the Sea Islands"
Stewart's Works
21. Meditation VI
22. "The Negro's Complaint"
23. "The First Stage of Life"
24. "Sufferings During the War"
Index