"Why sit ye here and die?  If we say we will go to a foreign land, the famine and the pestilence are there, and there we shall die.  If we sit here, we shall die.  come let us plead our cause before the whites:  if they save us alive, we shall live--and if they kill us, we shall but die."  

This is not a monologue but an Interpretive Reading Venue.....dressed in period 19th century clothing as Maria W. Stewart giving her famous speech delivered at the Franklin Hall, Boston, September 21, 1832.  She was the first American-born woman to break the taboo against women participation in public political dialogs.  She was the first American-born woman to lecture in defense of women's rights. 

A pioneer black abolitionist, a woman of profound religious faith, and a champion of women's rights, and a forerunner to Fredrick Douglas, Sojourner Truth, Frances Harper, and generations of the most influential champions of black activism, male and female.