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 lib...
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2021
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| Series: | Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
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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