Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought
Kristin Waters
University Press of Mississippi
Between 1831 and 1833, Stewart’s intellectual productions, as she called them, ranged across topics from true emancipation for African Americans, the Black convention movement, the hypocrisy of white Christianity, Black liberation theology, and gender inequity. Along with Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, her body of work constitutes a significant foundation for a moral and political theory that is finding new resonance today―insurrectionist ethics. In this work of recovery, author Kristin Waters examines the roots of Black political activism in the petition movement through the story and writings of this remarkable but largely unheralded woman and pioneering public intellectual.