Word, Like Fire: Maria Stewart, the Bible and the Rights of African Americans
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780813931883
LCCN
2011014240
OCLC
712780942
Category
General Circulation
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Publication Year
2011
Publisher
Pages
209
Abstract
Maria Stewart is believed by many to have been the first American woman of any race to give public political speeches. In Word, Like Fire, Valerie C. Cooper argues that the religious, political, and social threads of Maria Stewart's thought are tightly interwoven, such that focusing narrowly on any one aspect would be to misunderstand her rhetoric. Cooper demonstrates how a certain kind of biblical interpretation can be a Rosetta Stone for understanding various areas of African American life and thought that still resonate today.
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