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Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 1

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Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This first volume of his autobiography covers roughly the years of his birth through the end of the US Civil War. (Summary by JoeD) (19 hr 16 min)

Chapters

00 - Dedication and Preface

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01 - Chapter 1 - The Browns and Stones of Maryland, Thomas Stone, signer of the…

21:05

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02 - Chapter 2 - Our homestead 'Inglewood', School, Conway House, Falmonth, The…

29:20

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03 - Chapter 3 – Servants, The Preacher's Room, Folklore, The Falmouth witch, W…

38:52

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04 - Chapter 4 - Fredericksburg Academy, Charles Dickens in Virginia, The law c…

32:23

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05 - Chapter 5 - Dickinson College, The Faculty in 1847, Professor McClintock a…

29:17

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06 - Chapter 6 - Politics in Virginia, Roszel, Roy Wilson, John Moncure Daniel,…

18:56

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07 - Chapter 7 part 1 - College life, President Peck, A winter adventure, 'The …

30:38

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08 - Chapter 7 part 2 - Crisis wrought by Emerson, Visiting Washington, Listeni…

25:14

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09 - Chapter 8 - Education and slavery, A mob murder, The Agassiz theory of rac…

22:11

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10 - Chapter 9 - Early ministry and sermons, Probation, Webster, The Supreme Co…

39:51

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11 - Chapter 10 - Apostle of slavery, Home and garden, Black Becky, Sermon on P…

27:10

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12 - Chapter 11 - Parting from Methodism, Pains of new birth, John Minor, Influ…

34:41

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13 - Chapter 12 - Concord, Thoreau, Oriental books, Persian Desatir, The 'Rose …

31:56

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14 - Chapter 13 part 1 - Concerts and theatres, Mr. and Mrs. Jared Sparks, The …

25:44

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15 - Chapter 13 part 2 - Professor Convers Francis, Professor G. R. Noyes, The …

25:33

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16 - Chapter 14 - Divinity School, Fugitive slave, Sylvester Judd, Preaching, M…

33:17

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17 - Chapter 15 part 1 - First sermons at Washington, Settlement at Washington,…

23:46

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18 - Chapter 15 part 2 - Installation at Washington, Polemic about a Fast Day, …

20:24

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19 - Chapter 16 part 1 - Ante-bellum Washington, Incongruities, The McGuires, B…

18:51

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20 - Chapter 16 part 2 - Dr. Bailey, Longfellow's 'Hiawatha', Ministerial exper…

26:55

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21 - Chapter 17 part 1 - The slavery issue in Washington, Proslavery lecture, P…

43:13

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22 - Chapter 17 part 2 - Assault on Sumner, The Fremont campaign, Presentiment …

50:29

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23 - Chapter 18 part 1 - Settlement in Cincinnati, The Dred Scott decision, Chi…

30:26

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24 - Chapter 18 part 2 - Memnona, The village 'Modern Times', Germans in Cincin…

29:45

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25 - Chapter 19 part 1 - Unitarians and slavery, Rabbi Wise, The Abbe Miel, Fre…

27:13

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26 - Chapter 19 part 2 - Edward Everett, Marriage, Robert Collyer, The woman mo…

15:01

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27 - Chapter 20 part 1 - A spiritualist apostle, Theodore Parker, Unitarian alu…

43:35

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28 - Chapter 20 part 2 - The monthly 'Dial', W. D. Howells, Tale of Excalibur, …

25:58

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29 - Chapter 21 part 1 - Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati, Antislavery men, Emerso…

22:10

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30 - Chapter 21 part 2 - Delusions about Fort Sumter, Liberty in peril, Sumner …

33:44

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31 - Chapter 22 part 1 - The Rejected Stone, General Fremont, Letter from Chann…

33:10

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32 - Chapter 22 part 2 - Wendell Phillips mobbed in Cincinnati, Unitarian Confe…

32:14

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33 - Chapter 23 part 1 - The 'Commonwealth', Hymn for a new Advent, Watch Night…

30:41

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34 - Chapter 23 part 2 - Interview with Lincoln, Disheartened leaders, Oliver W…

21:32

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35 - Chapter 24 - Foreign complications, The Voyage to England, Mill on Liberty…

14:44

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36 - Chapter 25 - First interviews with the Carlyles, Carlyle's ridicule of bal…

27:36

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37 - Chapter 26 part 1 - English authors and the American war, Ruskin on war, E…

31:57

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38 - Chapter 26 part 2 - Speeches in London, John Bright, A mob in Manchester, …

35:26

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39 - Chapter 27 part 1 - Interview with Minister Adams, Sermons at South Place …

27:11

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40 - Chapter 27 part 2 - Letters and talks of Professor Newman, Dr. Newman in h…

18:18

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