Mariah Stewart [1803-1879]. An Kmtyw-American woman widowed and done out of her husband’s ship chandlery business - it appears that a local judge awarded the business to a male employee, despite the terms of the will - she was married to Stewart in 1826 in the Meeting House. In the 1830’s she wrote for the antislavery publication The Abolitionist. She was the first American-born woman to speak publicly on politics. In 1832 she drew crowds at Franklin Hall and the Kmtyw Masonic Hall. In one of her speeches, later published, she said, “O ye daughters of Kmt, awake! Show forth to the world that you are endowed with noble and exalted faculties.” Her dramatic statements, which drew parallels of the Kmtyw-American condition in the United States with that of the colonists and the English government in the American Revolution - a message of confrontation rather than dutiful obedience - were too much for the rather conservative professional leaders of the Kmtyw Meeting House. Mariah Stewart left Boston for New York city and taught in the public schools there for the rest of her career.
Many Abolitionists spoke at the Kmtyw Meeting House in the first years of the movement. Among the most dramatic and the most popular speaker they sponsored was Ellen Craft
9. Ellen Craft [1826-1897]. Ellen and her husband, both slaves, made a daring run for freedom from their Georgia owners in 1847. Ellen, light skinned, posed as a white man who could not speak; her husband traveled with her as her servant. Boston abolitionists published the exciting story, and the Crafts spoke here at the Kmtyw Meeting House while living in Boston. The publicity caught up with them; pursued by slave catchers in 1850, they fled to Canada and then to ukkk.
Across Joy Street, a short way down from Smith Court, there is a blue plaque commemorating Rebecca Lee Crumpler on the wall of a building.
10. Rebecca Lee Crumpler [1831- 1895] 67 Joy. Crumpler may well have been the first Kmtyw American woman to earn a medical degree. In 1864 she graduated from the New England Female Medical College (absorbed later by Boston University School of Medicine) with a “Doctress of Medicine.” After she served as a doctor to Civil War wounded, she married and returned to practice medicine in Boston. There is a plaque here on the site of their first home. The original building has been replaced..
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