Meditations from the Pen: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Meditations from the Pen, credited to Maria W. Stewart, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Meditations from the Pen, by Maria W. Stewart. Read by James K. White 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 mileu 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Meditations from the Pen
• Author credits: Maria W. Stewart
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 3:55:03

Catalogue topics

• slavery
• african american
• memoirs
• black

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface/Letters and Commendations — 25:52
2. 01 - Sufferings During The War — 28:40
3. 02 - Religion - Introduction — 11:34
4. 03 - Religion - Prayer — 23:15
5. 04 - Meditations Introduction, I, II and Prayer — 9:49
6. 05 - Meditations III, IV and Prayer — 7:18
7. 06 - Meditations V, VI, VII and Prayer — 10:02
8. 07 - Meditation VIII and Prayer — 5:23
9. 08 - Meditations IX, X and Prayer — 12:12
10. 09 - Meditations XI, XII and Prayer — 9:33
11. 10 - Meditation XIII, Prayer and Meditation XIV — 11:45
12. 11 - Lecture — 14:22
13. 12 - An Address Delivered Before The Afric-American Female Intelligence Society of Boston — 15:07
14. 13 - An Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston — 23:35
15. 14 - Mrs. Stewart's Farewell Address To Her Friends In The City Of Boston — 26:48

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