Autobiography: Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway
Published in 1904, three years before his death, Conway's Autobiography is a peaceful and introspective account of a compelling life. Born to a slave-owning Methodist family in Virginia, Conway (1832–1907) turned away from his roots to become a proponent of anti-slavery, free religion, reform and women's suffrage. Observing and becoming involved in the developments of late nineteenth-century religious, political, scientific, literary and artistic thought, he formed friendships with central figures of the age, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle, which feature in the work alongside his devoted family life. Volume 1 describes his childhood and education; antebellum Virginia and Maryland; Concord and Harvard with Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau; and Washington and Cincinnati on the eve of civil war. It also covers his arrival in England in 1863 and his first encounters at London's South Place Chapel and in the circles of social, legal and religious reform.
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Autobiography: Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway
Published in 1904, three years before his death, Conway's Autobiography is a peaceful and introspective account of a compelling life. Born to a slave-owning Methodist family in Virginia, Conway (1832–1907) turned away from his roots to become a proponent of anti-slavery, free religion, reform and women's suffrage. Observing and becoming involved in the developments of late nineteenth-century religious, political, scientific, literary and artistic thought, he formed friendships with central figures of the age, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle, which feature in the work alongside his devoted family life. Volume 1 describes his childhood and education; antebellum Virginia and Maryland; Concord and Harvard with Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau; and Washington and Cincinnati on the eve of civil war. It also covers his arrival in England in 1863 and his first encounters at London's South Place Chapel and in the circles of social, legal and religious reform.
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Autobiography: Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway

Autobiography: Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway

by Moncure Daniel Conway
Autobiography: Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway

Autobiography: Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway

by Moncure Daniel Conway

Overview

Published in 1904, three years before his death, Conway's Autobiography is a peaceful and introspective account of a compelling life. Born to a slave-owning Methodist family in Virginia, Conway (1832–1907) turned away from his roots to become a proponent of anti-slavery, free religion, reform and women's suffrage. Observing and becoming involved in the developments of late nineteenth-century religious, political, scientific, literary and artistic thought, he formed friendships with central figures of the age, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle, which feature in the work alongside his devoted family life. Volume 1 describes his childhood and education; antebellum Virginia and Maryland; Concord and Harvard with Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau; and Washington and Cincinnati on the eve of civil war. It also covers his arrival in England in 1863 and his first encounters at London's South Place Chapel and in the circles of social, legal and religious reform.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781108050609
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 06/07/2012
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.94(d)

Table of Contents

Dedication and preface; 1. My own people; 2. Our homestead; 3. Our servants; 4. Fredericksburg Academy; 5. Dickinson College; 6. Politics in Virginia; 7. College life; 8. Education and slavery; 9. My early ministry; 10. Rev. Dr Smith, apostle of slavery; 11. Parting from Methodism; 12. Summer at Concord; 13. Concerts and theatres; 14. Divinity school; 15. First sermons at Washington; 16. Ante-bellum Washington; 17. The slavery issue in Washington; 18. Settlement in Cincinnati; 19. Unitarians and slavery; 20. Art in Cincinnati; 21. Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati; 22. 'The rejected stone'; 23. Residence in Concord; 24. Foreign complications; 25. First interview with the Carlyles; 26. English authors and the American war; 27. Arrival of my family in England.
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