Provide 1 page double space response
Maria Stewart:
Stewart wrote and performed this speech in Boston 1833, to a racially mixed audience at the African Masonic Hall. What is she advocating as a program of resistance? What might she be responding to? How would you respond to her argument(s)?
Stewart says, "But it is of no use for us to boast that we sprung from this learned and enlightened nation, for this day a thick mist of moral gloom hangs over millions of our race. Our condition as a people has been low for hundreds of years, and it will continue to be so, unless, by the true piety and virtue we strive, to regain that which we have lost." What does she mean by "to regain that which we have lost"? Do you agree?
Stewart saves her final comments to address the Emigrationist movement. What is her argument in this regard? What does she offer as a solution and is it sufficient? Why or why not?