Moncure Conway returns to America to conduct a lecture tour

"In 1875-76 he [Conway] went on a lecture tour in America - his first since his departure in 1863 - during which he visisted Fredericksburg and had a poignant reconciliation with his father. The spirit carried over to Cincinnati, where he was presrent at the reuniting of the two church factions that had split so bitterly in 1859." D'Entremont, 221.
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Mason affair results in severe embarrassment for Moncure Conway

Moncure Conway wrote to James Murray Mason, Confederate emissary to Britain, declaring his authority (derived from the leading American abolitionists) to negotiate peace with the Confederacy based on an agreement to emancipate Southern slaves. As Conway had no such authority, he was crushingly embarrassed when the correspondence was published. The political fallout added to Conway's disillusionment and caused him to remain estranged from his native country. He remained in England for years to come. (By Blake Dickinson)
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Moncure Conway sails to England to gain support for the Union

Though the events surrounding his departure from America are muddled, Conway purportedly ventures to England in order to spread anti-slavery sentiment and foster British support for the Union. Initially Conway is a guest of Peter Alfred Taylor, a wealthy and radical member of the House of Commons. Afters a series of event and confrontations in America and England, Conway gains a position as minister at South Place Chapel, a free-thought religious institution in London, and becomes a permanent resident of England until 1885. (By Blake Dickinson)
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Moncure Conway becomes co-editor of "The Commonwealth, " an anti-slavery journal

After bringing his father's former slaves to freedom in Ohio, Conway accepted a position as the co-editor of The Commonwealth, a anti-slavery weekly published in Boston. Conway and his family immediately moved to Concord, Massachusetts to prepare for the work. While Conway emphasized the evils inherent in slavery as an institution, he also condemned any wholesale hatred of Southern people as a whole. Popular abolitionists such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Louisa May Alcott offered contributions to the publication. (By Blake Dickinson)
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John Brown, Marriage to Mary Ann Day (Reynolds, 2005)

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David S. Reynolds, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights, rev. ed. (New York: Vintage Books, 2005), 49.
[John] Brown…took on a housekeeper whose sixteen-year-old sister, Mary Day, came occasionally to spin cloth. Mary caught his eye as she sat at her spinning wheel. Tall and deep bosomed, she had striking black hair and a sturdy frame. The daughter of Charles Day, a blacksmith and farmer in nearby Troy Township, she had little formal education but impressed Brown as a practical, hardworking woman. It wasn't long before Brown, too bashful to propose verbally, presented her with a written offer of marriage.
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
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