Moncure conway autobiography
Published in , three years before his death, Conway's Autobiography is a peaceful and introspective account of a compelling life....
Autobiography, memories and experiences of Moncure Daniel Conway: in two volumes.
About the Author
Moncure Daniel Conway
(1832-1907)
Moncure Daniel Conway was born the second son of an old and distinguished family on March 17, 1832 in Stafford County, Virginia. His father, Walker Peyton Conway, was a prominent slaveholding landowner, a magistrate, and a representative to the Virginia legislature.
His mother, Margaret Daniel Conway, could trace her family to the earliest days of the commonwealth. Both his parents had converted to Methodism, he from the Episcopalians and she from the Presbyterians, and the Conway children were exposed at an early age to evangelicalism.
Moncure Conway first went to a family school and then attended the thriving Fredericksburg Classical and Mathematical Academy, a school that had educated George Washington and other famous Virginians.
Moncure Daniel Conway (March 17, – November 15, ) was an American abolitionist minister and radical writer.He entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a sophomore at the age of fifteen. Conway advanced quickly at the Methodist affiliated college and graduated with the class of 1849. While
