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Heritage Guild: Honoring David Walker and Maria Stewart
September 18, 2005
Spencer Crew CEO, Underground Railroad Freedom Center

This reception celebrates the plaques that were placed honoring David Walker and Maria Stewart, who both lived at 81 Joy Street (formerly 8 Belknap Street.) in Boston. Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) was a controversial black abolitionist, essayist, lecturer and religious activist who lived on Beacon Hill. Her speeches, published by William Lloyd Garrison, were the first publicly-delivered speeches by an American woman on politics and women's rights. David Walker (1785-1830), in 1829, published "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" decrying American slavery, racial hatred, and summoning his fellow African Americans to resist. A bounty was placed on him by slave owners.

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