Maria W. Stewart

Maria W. Stewart: Essential Writings of a 19th-Century Black Abolitionist offers the most comprehensive and contextually dynamic collection of Stewart's fascinating corpus to date. This important volume brings together all of Stewart's known essays, lectures, and fiction, including recently discovered texts, and its extended introduction and detailed notes situate Stewart's political philosophy in the rich intellectual contexts within which she worked, including abolitionism, black nationalism, feminism, and sentimentalism.