date of Stewart’s life and an excellent basis for understanding Stewart’s work." ?History"This is informative and inspiring source material for today’s scholars, lay readers, and ‘professionals’... " ?Journal of American HistoryIn gathering and introducing Stewart’s works, Richardson provides an opportunity for readers to study the thoughts and words of this influential early black female activist, a forerunner to Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth and the first black American to lecture in defense of women’s rights, placing her in the context of the swirling abolitionist movement.

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