Maria W. Stewart and the roots of black political thought /

Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought tells a crucial, almost-forgotten story of African Americans of early nineteenth-century America. In 1833, Maria Stewart (1803-1879) told a gathering at the African Masonic Hall on Boston's Beacon Hill 'African rights and liberty is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Waters, Kristin (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022].
Series:	Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies.
Subjects:	Stewart, Maria W., > 1803-1879. Walker, David, > 1785-1830. African American women political activists. African American women > History > 19th century. African Americans > History > To 1863. African Americans > Religion. Antislavery movements > United States. African Americans > Politics and government > 19th century. African American women abolitionists.

Table of Contents:

Poem: The African meeting house, by Regie Gibson
Introduction: Maria W. Stewart: her life and thought
Chapter one: Many flowers among us: Maria W. Stewart, Lecture delivered at the Franklin Hall (1832)
Chapter two: Call me Lib
Chapter three: Stolen from Africa
Chapter four: The day of small things
Chapter five: Bound out in a clergyman's family
Chapter six: Laugh an' sing until tomorrow
Chapter seven: In saucy defiance
Chapter eight: Served as a seaman
Chapter nine: Partus sequitor ventrem
Chapter ten: He refused unless we would ride on top
Chapter eleven: The sun has risen gloriously upon the earth
Chapter twelve: The cricle of your acquantance
Chapter thrrteen: The great day has arrived
Chapter fourteen: Celebrating revolutions
Chapter fifteen: Holy vows
Chapter sixteen: Black founders and the roots of Black political thought
Chapter seventeen: To ameliorate our miserable condition
Chapter eighteen: The most noble, fearless, and undaunted David Walker
Chapter nineteen: Cup of sorrow
Chapter twenty: Meditations
Chapter twenty-one: Maria W. Stewart and the principles of moral and political theory
Chapter twenty-two: A rational and accountable creature
Chapter twently-three: Why Sit Ye Here and Die?
Chapter twenty-four: On African rights and liberty
Chapter twenty-five: Farewell address
Postscript
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index.