A Black woman gave the first American lectures to mixed-race audiences

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“It is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the soul,” Stewart told Bostonians. Stewart’s four public lectures in 1832 and 1833 are known today as the first time an American-born woman addressed a mixed audience of White and Black men and women. And she was a pioneering Black feminist, at that. But some called the idea of a mixed audience “promiscuous.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 443