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)

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00 - Dedication and Preface 5:57 Leído por TriciaG
01 - Chapter 1 - The Browns and Stones of Maryland, Thomas Stone, signer of the… 21:05 Leído por JoeD
02 - Chapter 2 - Our homestead 'Inglewood', School, Conway House, Falmonth, The… 29:20 Leído por JoeD
03 - Chapter 3 – Servants, The Preacher's Room, Folklore, The Falmouth witch, W… 38:52 Leído por JoeD
04 - Chapter 4 - Fredericksburg Academy, Charles Dickens in Virginia, The law c… 32:23 Leído por JoeD
05 - Chapter 5 - Dickinson College, The Faculty in 1847, Professor McClintock a… 29:17 Leído por JoeD
06 - Chapter 6 - Politics in Virginia, Roszel, Roy Wilson, John Moncure Daniel,… 18:56 Leído por Margaret Espaillat
07 - Chapter 7 part 1 - College life, President Peck, A winter adventure, 'The … 30:38 Leído por Margaret Espaillat
08 - Chapter 7 part 2 - Crisis wrought by Emerson, Visiting Washington, Listeni… 25:14 Leído por Margaret Espaillat
09 - Chapter 8 - Education and slavery, A mob murder, The Agassiz theory of rac… 22:11 Leído por Guero
10 - Chapter 9 - Early ministry and sermons, Probation, Webster, The Supreme Co… 39:51 Leído por Sundiata
11 - Chapter 10 - Apostle of slavery, Home and garden, Black Becky, Sermon on P… 27:10 Leído por rymd80
12 - Chapter 11 - Parting from Methodism, Pains of new birth, John Minor, Influ… 34:41 Leído por TriciaG
13 - Chapter 12 - Concord, Thoreau, Oriental books, Persian Desatir, The 'Rose … 31:56 Leído por TriciaG
14 - Chapter 13 part 1 - Concerts and theatres, Mr. and Mrs. Jared Sparks, The … 25:44 Leído por Margaret Espaillat
15 - Chapter 13 part 2 - Professor Convers Francis, Professor G. R. Noyes, The … 25:33 Leído por Margaret Espaillat
16 - Chapter 14 - Divinity School, Fugitive slave, Sylvester Judd, Preaching, M… 33:17 Leído por Margaret Espaillat
17 - Chapter 15 part 1 - First sermons at Washington, Settlement at Washington,… 23:46 Leído por Margaret Espaillat
18 - Chapter 15 part 2 - Installation at Washington, Polemic about a Fast Day, … 20:24 Leído por Margaret Espaillat
19 - Chapter 16 part 1 - Ante-bellum Washington, Incongruities, The McGuires, B… 18:51 Leído por TriciaG
20 - Chapter 16 part 2 - Dr. Bailey, Longfellow's 'Hiawatha', Ministerial exper… 26:55 Leído por TriciaG
21 - Chapter 17 part 1 - The slavery issue in Washington, Proslavery lecture, P… 43:13 Leído por Sundiata
22 - Chapter 17 part 2 - Assault on Sumner, The Fremont campaign, Presentiment … 50:29 Leído por Sundiata
23 - Chapter 18 part 1 - Settlement in Cincinnati, The Dred Scott decision, Chi… 30:26 Leído por Margaret Espaillat
24 - Chapter 18 part 2 - Memnona, The village 'Modern Times', Germans in Cincin… 29:45 Leído por Margaret Espaillat
25 - Chapter 19 part 1 - Unitarians and slavery, Rabbi Wise, The Abbe Miel, Fre… 27:13 Leído por Michael Reuss
26 - Chapter 19 part 2 - Edward Everett, Marriage, Robert Collyer, The woman mo… 15:01 Leído por Michael Reuss
27 - Chapter 20 part 1 - A spiritualist apostle, Theodore Parker, Unitarian alu… 43:35 Leído por Margaret Espaillat
28 - Chapter 20 part 2 - The monthly 'Dial', W. D. Howells, Tale of Excalibur, … 25:58 Leído por Margaret Espaillat
29 - Chapter 21 part 1 - Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati, Antislavery men, Emerso… 22:10 Leído por TriciaG
30 - Chapter 21 part 2 - Delusions about Fort Sumter, Liberty in peril, Sumner … 33:44 Leído por TriciaG
31 - Chapter 22 part 1 - The Rejected Stone, General Fremont, Letter from Chann… 33:10 Leído por Rholdah
32 - Chapter 22 part 2 - Wendell Phillips mobbed in Cincinnati, Unitarian Confe… 32:14 Leído por Sundiata
33 - Chapter 23 part 1 - The 'Commonwealth', Hymn for a new Advent, Watch Night… 30:41 Leído por Snapdragon
34 - Chapter 23 part 2 - Interview with Lincoln, Disheartened leaders, Oliver W… 21:32 Leído por Snapdragon
35 - Chapter 24 - Foreign complications, The Voyage to England, Mill on Liberty… 14:44 Leído por Rholdah
36 - Chapter 25 - First interviews with the Carlyles, Carlyle's ridicule of bal… 27:36 Leído por TriciaG
37 - Chapter 26 part 1 - English authors and the American war, Ruskin on war, E… 31:57 Leído por Michael Reuss
38 - Chapter 26 part 2 - Speeches in London, John Bright, A mob in Manchester, … 35:26 Leído por L D Hamilton
39 - Chapter 27 part 1 - Interview with Minister Adams, Sermons at South Place … 27:11 Leído por TriciaG
40 - Chapter 27 part 2 - Letters and talks of Professor Newman, Dr. Newman in h… 18:18 Leído por TriciaG