Paper details:
Journal Topic: Maria W. Stewart is known as the first American anti-slavery feminist orator of African descent. Scholars consider her essay, “Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality,” the first political manifesto written by an African American woman and argue she “laid down the fundamental principles of her black nationalistic ideology” (396). What was her message? Outline Stewart’s ideology.
Assigned Reading: Call & Response
211-234 “The Desire for Freedom”
395-404 Maria W. Stewart’s “Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality”
418-430 Nat Turner’s “Confessions