Maria W. Stewart
American teacher, journalist, and activist (1803–1879)
📍 Hartford, Connecticut USA
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Maria W. Stewart was an African American writer, lecturer, teacher, and activist from Hartford, Connecticut. She is widely recognized as the first woman in the United States to give a public speech and the first American-born woman to speak publicly about abolition and women's rights, breaking barriers for both Black and female voices in the early 19th century.
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