by Geoff Cobb Update 02/13/2024: We’re resharing this history piece in honor of Black History Month.
As we celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month its time to recall that one of the early giants of both the Abolitionist movement and the women’s movement lived for many years in Williamsburg. Maria Stewart, who taught in Colored School #3 on Union Avenue, can claim a number of amazing firsts.
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May I reprint portions of your article in Our Time Press community newspaper? http://www.ourtimepress.com
Yes, Ms. Green by all means. I also wrote another piece about the first African-American principal that you might also like.
That picture is NOT of Maria Stewart – it is of Sarah Harris Fayerweather, the first Black student at the Canterbury Female Academy in 1832, taught by Prudence Crandall.