Read Part One HERE
In this post I continue to focus on a woman named Maria W. Miller Stewart. She lived from 1803 - 1879.
In her first lecture, in April 1832, Maria spoke before a women-only audience at the African Female Intelligence Society, an institution founded by the free black community of Boston. Speaking to that audience, she used the Bible to defend her right to speak and lectured on religion, justice and equality.
On September 1832, Maria delivered a second lecture, this time to an audience that also included men. She spoke at Franklin Hall, the site of the New England Anti-Slavery Society Meetings. She called for civil rights for northern blacks and questioned emigration to Africa, which was then promoted by the American Colonization Society.
On February 27, 1833, Maria delivered her third public lecture, "African Rights and Liberty." Her fourth and final Boston lecture, before moving to New York was a "Farewell Adress" on September 21, 1833, when she addressed the negative reaction that her public speaking had provoked, expressing both her dismay at having little effect, and her sense of divine call to speak publicly.
Read Part Fifty-One HERE
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