Autobiography

Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway

By: Moncure Daniel Conway

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Paperback | 7 June 2012

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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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Dedication and preface
My own people
Our homestead
Our servants
Fredericksburg Academy
Dickinson College
Politics in Virginia
College life
Education and slavery
My early ministry
Rev. Dr Smith, apostle of slavery
Parting from Methodism
Summer at Concord
Concerts and theatres
Divinity school
First sermons at Washington
Ante-bellum Washington
The slavery issue in Washington
Settlement in Cincinnati
Unitarians and slavery
Art in Cincinnati
Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati
'The rejected stone'
Residence in Concord
Foreign complications
First interview with the Carlyles
English authors and the American war
Arrival of my family in England
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