Taking Our INHERTIENCE Back

Numbers 27:5-7. 5: So Moses brought their case before the lord. 6: and the Lord said to him, 7:"What Zelophehad's daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father's relatives and turn their father's inheritance over to them". After God spoke it it was given. Zelophehad's daughters got their inheritance. This bible verse is the first thing I thought about after reading Coming to voice: Maria W. Stewart, a Case in point. Maria was married three years before her husband passed away. He left her one-third of his estate. Her husband's white colleagues were determined to take all of it. Maria battled for two years before being told she would receive nothing. Maria W. Stewart was a black, literate, intelligent woman. Her desire was to speak in anyway possible about the injustice that black literate women faced. In the era that Maria was in was after the Civil War. Times where blacks were finding the need to educate their race while expressing the feelings. Maria took everything that she had faced and wrote about it. “Religion and the Pure Principles of Morality: The Sure Foundation on Which We Must Build.” Was her first published essay by the Liberator. From then on out Stewart spent three years as a public figure. Stewart although it may have seemed like her life was rough she was blessed. One unlike slaves she could read, write, and express her experiences and her race experiences. And although whites had stole her inheritance and put her down she received something better. “In December 1879, Stewart died in this hospital, but not before she had submitted and won a claim to receive a pension as the widow of war veteran, based on federal legislation passed in 1878 permitting such claims.” This proves that what God has for you no man can take it away. Also when God says it it must come to pass. Slavery took three hundred and some years to come to pass but it did. Just like Maria W. Stewart everything she went thru shaped her to use the talents God gave her to encourage a race that needed uplifting. God gave each Spelmanite the charge to use everything wehave learn and experienced to take back our race and inheritance.