Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Poetry, *Non-fiction, Religion, Political Science

Authors: Maria W. Stewart In Year : 1879

Book Language: English

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00 - Preface/Letters and Commendations
01 - Sufferings During The War
02 - Religion - Introduction
03 - Religion - Prayer
04 - Meditations Introduction, I, II and Prayer
05 - Meditations III, IV and Prayer
06 - Meditations V, VI, VII and Prayer
07 - Meditation VIII and Prayer
08 - Meditations IX, X and Prayer
09 - Meditations XI, XII and Prayer
10 - Meditation XIII, Prayer and Meditation XIV
11 - Lecture
12 - An Address Delivered Before The Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston
13 - An Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston
14 - Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address To Her Friends In The City Of Boston

Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery and women's rights. Meditations From The Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart—published in 1879, shortly before her death—is a collection of those speeches as well as her memoir, some meditations and prayers. They are political, poetical and sermon all at the same time; but in the milieu in which she lectured, they were a critically important part of the abolitionist movement years before the contributions of others such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth. Her speeches and essays espoused a return to Christian values and morality, but also proposed fundamental changes in gender roles in the midst of tremendous public opposition to the rights of blacks and of women. (Introduction by James K. White)