Word, Like Fire

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Word, Like Fire is written by Valerie C. Cooper and published by University of Virginia Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0813931886 (ISBN 10) and 9780813931883 (ISBN 13).

African American theologian Maria Stewart was born free in Connecticut, and delivered five speeches in Boston and New York between 1831 and 1833 that were published with other writings by her in 1835 and 1879 as Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart. Though the speeches were highly political, Cooper argues that they are also deeply theological, and shows how they use the Bible extensively to buttress Stewart's arguments on behalf of blacks' and women's rights and empowerment.