Keidrick Roy, a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Harvard University, is an educator, exhibition curator, documentary filmmaker, and former military nuclear operations officer. He draws on the intersection of American history, literature, and political philosophy to put Maria Stewart, the first African-American woman to deliver a public political lecture, in conversation with Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and brightest son of America’s Enlightenment tradition. Roy shows how Stewart’s devastating critique of the contradictions in Jefferson’s ideas remains relevant today amid public scandals, ongoing inequities, political divisions, racial tensions, and a pervasive nostalgia that hopes to bring back to life an America that never existed.

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