GCC The Historical Example of Maria Stewart Discussion

Introduction

The Historical Example of Maria Stewart

I often — I know, it’s an understatement — ask you to explain WHY a historical figure can be a considered a person of her/his time. I especially like to present the former slave and devoutly religious woman Maria Stewart to my students because she embodies so much of 19th-century society, culture, politics and economy — all forces of historical inquiry!

Sources

Read the excerpt On Religion and Morality (pp. 270-71 in your Primary Sources Packet)

For the Post

1. Pick two forces that make Stewart a product of her time and explain why.
   1. Think about how she was a product of her time. What ideologies and ideas influenced her?
   2. Here are some topics that may inspire you: Enlightenment ideas, post-Revolutionary, woman’s rights, abolitionism, second great Awakening, pre-Civil War and female education, to name a few.

*You must provide a short parenthetical citation for every response to a source as you would in an RW. For example, (Scott, 1055).

here’s the link so the reading material , Primary Sources Packet (also found in Course Reference Module)

• Stewart, “On Religion,” 270-1.