Autobiography: Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway, Vol. 1

NUP: Negro Universities Press; New York, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. ONLY VOLUME 1. CONWAY, Moncure Daniel. "Autobiography: Memories and Experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway, Vol. 1." NUP: Negro Universities Press; New York, 1969. English language. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Some yellowing. No ISBN but contemporary reprint is: 9781330425916. "Moncure Daniel Conway (17 March 1832–14 or 15 November 1907), reformer and writer, was born at Middleton, the Stafford County estate of his parents, Walker Peyton Conway, a planter, entrepreneur, and presiding judge of the Stafford County Court, and Margaret Eleanor Daniel Conway, a self-taught homeopathic doctor. From both parents he inherited prestigious names and powerful connections. His great-uncle Peter V. Daniel (1784–1860) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and his uncle Raleigh Travers Daniel later served as Virginia's attorney general. In 1832 no one could have envisioned this son of the Virginia slavocracy as an abolitionist and abettor of fugitive slaves, a racial egalitarian and feminist, and a leading religious radical on two continents. Yet Conway was all these things. His significance for Virginia history lies not merely in the breathtaking dimensions of his apostasy, nor in his regurgitation from the state for abolitionist activism; most fundamentally it lies in the ways in which Virginia helped create him. Virginia repudiated Conway only after Virginians had helped produce him.