Stewart, Maria W., 1803-1879 (Personal Name)

We claim our rights, 1987: CIP t.p. (Maria W. Stewart) pref. (first American woman to lecture in public on political themes and leave extant copies of her texts; a pioneer black abolitionist)

LC man. cat. (hdg.: Stewart, Maria W. (Miller), Mrs.)

Black women in America, 1993: p. 1113 (Stewart, Maria W.; public school teacher at N.Y.C., Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.; abolitionist; public speaker; b. 1803 at Hartford, Conn.; d. 12/17/1879)

African American women, 1993 (Stewart, Maria W. (Miller); first black woman to do public speaking in U.S.; married James W. Stewart in 1826 and took his middle initial as well; b. 1803 at Hartford, Conn.; d. 12/17/1879 at Washington, D.C.)

African American National Biography, accessed September 15, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Stewart, Maria W; Maria Miller; essayist, black nationalist, educator; born 1803 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States; publicly professed her faith in Christ (1831); her religious conversion catalyzed her political life; initiated Women's Right's movement; attended Women's Anti-Slavery Convention, New York (1837); was a member of a black women's literary society; served as matron of the Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum, a refuge for Civil War veterans (1870s); died Dec. 1879 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States)