Conway, Moncure Daniel (1832-1907) The Rejected stone: or insurrection vs. resurrection in America. By a native of Virginia
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00267.248 Author/Creator: Conway, Moncure Daniel (1832-1907) Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Book Date: 1861 Pagination: 1 v. : 132 p. ; 19.2 x 12.3 cm. Order a Copy
Conway's authorship marked as "By a Native of Virginia." Published by Walker, Wise, and Company at 245 Washington Street. Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. First edition. A plea for emancipation divided into 19 chapters. Original red printed wrappers, which are fragile (front cover is barely attached).
Conway was an American author and preacher. An ardent abolitionist, he moved from Cincinnati to Boston in 1861 and became editor of the "Commonwealth" in Boston, and wrote The Rejected Stone (1861) and The Golden Hour (1862). Conway lectured in England during the Civil War in the interests of the North. Brought up as a Methodist, he became a Unitarian minister and later rejected Unitarianism to become a preacher of free thought. Besides editing and contributing essays to periodicals, he was the author of over 70 books, including a biography of Thomas Paine (1892), whose works he also edited (4 vol., 1894–96).I Nevins 209, Sabin 16221, Dumon 44.
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