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eBay's largest sellers use AuctionLynxx to increase sales... shouldn't you? The Wandering Jew, Moncure Daniel Conway, First Edition, Very Scarce. Chatto & Windus, London 1881. Book Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 292 pages with 32 pages of advertisements. Boards and fabric are in very good condition. Fabric has very little wear. Hard cover has a few dings and light bumping, but fabric is clean and shows very few tears. T is slight wear to the extremities and two pin size holes on the rear edge by the spine hinge. Moncure Daniel Conway (March 17, 1832 – November 5, 1907), was an American abolitionist, clergyman and author. Frontispiece has a few notations in pencil. Front and rear paste-downs are in charcoal and in very good condition. The pages are clean and free of writing. Front and rear pages have some foxing. The pages throughout have a light age tone. Former owner plate is affixed to inside front. The book was owned by the importanbt collector and publisher, Walter Kahoe. Among other accomplishments, Mr. Kahoe created what has become the largest bookplate manufacturer in the USA. This is a very scarce book by the important American religious figure and author. T is only one other copy, of a far lesser quality, available online. He was born of an old Virginia family in Falmouth, Stafford County. His father was a wealthy gentleman farmer, a slaveholder, and county judge whose home still stands in Falmouth at 305 King Street (aka River Road) along the Rappahannock River. Conway's mother was a homemaker and homeopathic physician. Both parents were Methodists, his father having left the Episcopal church, his mother the Presbyterian. Moncure's later opposition to slavery came from his mother and from his boyhood experiences. His father and three brothers remained staunchly pro-slavery. As a youth he himself briefly took a pro-slavery position, under the influence of a cousin, the Richmond editor John Moncure Daniel. He graduated at Dickinson College in 1849, studied law for a year, and then became a Methodist minister in his native state. In 1852, thanks largely to the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson, his religious and political views underwent a radical change, and he entered the Harvard University school of divinity, w he graduated in 1854. he fell under the influence of "transcendentalism," and became an outspoken abolitionist. After graduation from Harvard University, Conway accepted a call to the First Unitarian Church of Washington, D.C., w he was ordained in 1855, but his anti-slavery views brought about his dismissal in 1856. On his return to Virginia, his abolitionist stance and his rumoured connection with the attempt to rescue the fugitive slave, Anthony Burns, in Boston, Massachusetts, aroused the bitter hostility of his old neighbours and friends. In consequence, he left the state. From 1856 to 1861 he was a Unitarian minister in Cincinnati, Ohio, w, also, he edited a short-lived liberal periodical called The Dial. After the Civil War broke out Conway located in Washington his father's several dozen slaves, who had fled from Virginia, and escorted them through Maryland--still a slave state--to safety in Ohio. While in Cincinnati, Conway married Ellen Davis Dana. Ellen was a member of the Unitarian faith, a feminist and an abolitionist. The couple had four children. Despite the previous tension with his family over slavery issues, Conway nevertheless brought his bride to meet his family. His wife broke a Southern social constraint by hugging and kissing a young slave girl in front of family members. After this, it would take seventeen years before Conway reconciled with his family. Subsequently he became editor of the Commonwealth in Boston, and wrote The Rejected Stone (1861) and The Golden Hour (1862), both powerful pleas for emancipation. In 1862, after spending more and more time away from his church advancing the abolitionist cause, Conway left its ministry. He had grown dissatisfied with the theological, liturgical, and social conservatism of ... 
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