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Illustration of Nashoba Settlement
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NASHOBA
A well-born English woman and close friend of General Lafayette,
Frances Wright founded Nashoba in Shelby County, Tennessee, in 1825 to form
a community in which slaves would be prepared for freedom through education
in letters and farming. Wright enjoyed the friendship of Robert Owen and modeled
her commune on New Harmony. When it failed, she arranged
for the thirty-one Negroes still at Nashoba to move to Haiti and, with
Lafayette’s assistance, to be assured of their freedom.
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