Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart
Author: first_name: Maria W.
last_name: Stewart
Language: English
Year: 1879

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.  <em>Meditations From The Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart</em>—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 a