Kristin Waters
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781496836748
- eISBN:
- 9781496836731
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496836748.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
In this introduction, Waters discusses the scope of this book. Exploring the life and thought of Maria W. Stewart, Waters considers first Stewart’s earliest years, then her move from Hartford to ...
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In this introduction, Waters discusses the scope of this book. Exploring the life and thought of Maria W. Stewart, Waters considers first Stewart’s earliest years, then her move from Hartford to Boston, and examine closely the most intellectually productive time in the life of a woman whose journey took her from indentured servitude to recognition as a writer, speaker, thinker, and political philosopher. Waters reveals the methodology used in her research.Less
In this introduction, Waters discusses the scope of this book. Exploring the life and thought of Maria W. Stewart, Waters considers first Stewart’s earliest years, then her move from Hartford to Boston, and examine closely the most intellectually productive time in the life of a woman whose journey took her from indentured servitude to recognition as a writer, speaker, thinker, and political philosopher. Waters reveals the methodology used in her research.
Kristin Waters
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- May 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781496836748
- eISBN:
- 9781496836731
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496836748.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
In 1833 Maria W. Stewart told a gathering at the African Masonic Hall on Boston’s Beacon Hill, “African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in ...
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In 1833 Maria W. Stewart told a gathering at the African Masonic Hall on Boston’s Beacon Hill, “African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States.” She held that the founding principles of the United States must extend to all people, otherwise they are merely the hypocritical expression of an ungodly white power. This first-ever biography of a profoundly significant writer explores her early life as an indentured servant in Hartford, Connecticut. Later, she defied adversity, journeying to Boston where she met and married a wealthy commercial agent and former seaman and became a powerful force within the lively black community on Beacon Hill’s North Slope. Between 1831-1833 Stewart’s “intellectual productions” ranged across topics including true emancipation for African Americans, abolition, the hypocrisy of white Christianity, black liberation theology, and gender inequity. Along with David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, (1829), her body of work constitutes a significant foundation for black radical politics.Less
In 1833 Maria W. Stewart told a gathering at the African Masonic Hall on Boston’s Beacon Hill, “African rights and liberty is a subject that ought to fire the breast of every free man of color in these United States.” She held that the founding principles of the United States must extend to all people, otherwise they are merely the hypocritical expression of an ungodly white power. This first-ever biography of a profoundly significant writer explores her early life as an indentured servant in Hartford, Connecticut. Later, she defied adversity, journeying to Boston where she met and married a wealthy commercial agent and former seaman and became a powerful force within the lively black community on Beacon Hill’s North Slope. Between 1831-1833 Stewart’s “intellectual productions” ranged across topics including true emancipation for African Americans, abolition, the hypocrisy of white Christianity, black liberation theology, and gender inequity. Along with David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, (1829), her body of work constitutes a significant foundation for black radical politics.
Eric Gardner
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604732832
- eISBN:
- 9781604732849
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604732832.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
This chapter presents the story of the fragility of black literary communities appearing in unexpected places—in particular, the story of the ultimate disintegration of the Indiana base of the ...
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This chapter presents the story of the fragility of black literary communities appearing in unexpected places—in particular, the story of the ultimate disintegration of the Indiana base of the Repository. With the Recorder in Philadelphia and the Repository resettled in Baltimore, Weaver and Brown soon became somewhat-hesitant participants in a debate about whether the church could support two periodicals. This chapter examines the arguments swirling around the Recorder’s rebirth and the Repository’s demise; within this context, it closes with a contrastive reading of recently rediscovered Repository texts by early black activist Maria W. Stewart and Weaver’s later travel writing for the Recorder. It focuses not only on the varying conceptions of the West as a site of a version of the domesticated black frontier that John Berry Meachum alluded to in his Address but also on two symbiotic forms of black mobility, that of the ever-striving settlers and that of itinerant ministers.Less
This chapter presents the story of the fragility of black literary communities appearing in unexpected places—in particular, the story of the ultimate disintegration of the Indiana base of the Repository. With the Recorder in Philadelphia and the Repository resettled in Baltimore, Weaver and Brown soon became somewhat-hesitant participants in a debate about whether the church could support two periodicals. This chapter examines the arguments swirling around the Recorder’s rebirth and the Repository’s demise; within this context, it closes with a contrastive reading of recently rediscovered Repository texts by early black activist Maria W. Stewart and Weaver’s later travel writing for the Recorder. It focuses not only on the varying conceptions of the West as a site of a version of the domesticated black frontier that John Berry Meachum alluded to in his Address but also on two symbiotic forms of black mobility, that of the ever-striving settlers and that of itinerant ministers.
