Maria W. Stewart

Maria W. Stewart

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Maria W. Stewart (née Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was a free-born African American who became a teacher, journalist, lecturer, abolitionist, and women's rights activist. The first known American woman to speak to a mixed audience of men and women, white and black, she was also the first African-American woman to make public lectures, as well as to lecture about women's rights and make a public anti-slavery speech.

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Maria W. Stewart was born on 1803 in Hartford, Connecticut. She was best known as an activist. Stewart's country of citizenship (nationality) was American. She died on Wednesday, 17 December 1879 in Washington, DC, USA at the age of 76.

You can find people similar to Maria W. Stewart by visiting our lists 19th-century African-American writers and Women civil rights activists.

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Washington, DC, USA
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