author
T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
1843–1924
An influential African American minister, educator, and army chaplain, he wrote about Black history, military service, and public life at a time when those stories were too often ignored. His work joined scholarship, faith, and activism in a way that still feels strikingly modern.
4 Audiobooks
The Colored Regulars in the United States Army
by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
How the Black St. Domingo Legion Saved the Patriot Army in the Siege of Savannah, 1779 The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 5
by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward, Containing: A Full Sketch of Her Life With Various Selections from Her Writings and Letters ...
by T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.)
by Archibald Henry Grimké, John Wesley Cromwell, Lafayette M. Hershaw, William Pickens, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
About the author
Born in Gouldtown, New Jersey, in 1843, T. G. Steward became a leading African American clergyman, teacher, and writer. Reliable sources describe him as an author, educator, and minister who also served as a U.S. Army chaplain with the 25th U.S. Colored Infantry, linking his religious life with public service.
Steward worked in education as well as the church, and he wrote widely on Black history, race, religion, and citizenship. He is especially remembered for recording the service of Black soldiers and for arguing, through both sermons and books, for fuller recognition of African American achievement and civil rights.
He died in 1924, leaving behind a body of work that helps readers understand Black intellectual and civic life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For listeners today, his writing offers both historical detail and the voice of someone determined to preserve stories that mattered.