£10.96 Add to Cart

Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright: Rebel In America

Only 1 available

Details

Shipping: United Kingdom: £41.00 (more destinations)

Sales Tax: check

Condition: Used

Description

(028508) Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright: Rebel In America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1984. 2nd printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 337 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. Frances Wright was born in Scotland in 1795 and came to the United States in 1818 and died in Ohio in 1852. Her lifetime was devoted to promoting equality among the races and between sexes. In 1825 she became the first woman in America to act publicly to oppose slavery. Twenty miles outside Memphis, Tennessee, she established a commune whose purpose was to demonstrate how slves might be educated and responsibly freed ISBN: 0674294351 (D'Arusmont, Frances, Feminists)