Maria Stewart was a writer and public speaker – the first African-American to address a mixed audience of Black and White people, men and women – on topics including abolitionism, faith and the rights of women. Four of her pamphlets were published in William Lloyd Garrison’s influential newspaper The Liberator. After a few years her negative views of Black men proved unpopular, and she retired from public life to become a teacher and, later, head matron of Freedmen’s Hospital in Washington, D.C., the forerunner of Howard University. (projecthbw.blogspot.com)
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