Moncure Daniel Conway

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Nearby to the northwest is the childhood home of renowned abolitionist, writer, and lecturer Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907). In 1838 his family moved into this Federal-style house. Conway graduated from Dickinson College in 1849 and Harvard Divinity School in 1854 and became outspoken in the abolitionist movement. During the Civil War, Conway lived in Cincinnati, Ohio and traveled east in 1862 to lead his family's slaves to freedom in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Conway moved to London in 1863 and spent a number of years abroad, writing for English and American periodicals. He also wrote biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Thomas Paine. Conway died in Paris on 15 Nov. 1907.

Department of Historic Resources, 2004

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

“Moncure Conway,” http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/moncureconway.html, 13 November 2003; Moncure Daniel Conway, Autobiography Memories and Experience of Moncure Daniel Conway, In Two Volumes (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1904); “Moncure Daniel Conway and the Conway Colony-Greene County,” http://www.ohio200.org/markers/detail.asp?PID=313; Moncure Conway House, Virginia Landmarks Register Archives File (89-67-31), Department of Historic Resources, Richmond, Virginia; John D’Entremont, Southern Emancipator: Moncure Conway, The American Years, 1832-1865 (New York : Oxford University Press, 1987); John A. Garraty and Mark Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 23 vols. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University, 1999): 5:362-363; Lee Woolf, “Stafford County’s ‘Unfavorite Son’ Shunned in his own time, complex 19th-century anti-slavery crusader finds place in history,” The Free Lance-Star 2 February 2002: Town and Country section pages 7-11.