Francis Wright
...s inquiry, free education for everyone regardless of sex, religion, race or economic status, advocate of birth control, more liberal divorce laws, and equal treatment for illegitimate children(electric Scotland). However, her social causes were affected by her educational background and in essence they took shape early on when she was orphaned at the age of two along with a sister named Camilla, the two of them inherited a fortune. The sisters were raised by their aunt and grandfather who they both later came to despise their strict political views. She moved in with her uncle James Milne in Glasgow Scotland at the age of 21. Milne was a professor of moral philosophy and a member of the Scottish school of progressive philosophers. He encouraged Fanny to question the conventional ideas and had lasting influence on her political development. It was at the library where he taught that Fanny self educated herself about such things as and American views, heritage, and politics (electric Scotland). Moreover, Fanny’s inheritance enabled her to leave England and in 1818; she came to the United States. Wright then wrote a play in 1819 about the struggle for republicanism in Switzerland. Over the next two years she and Camilla traveled through the northeast before returning to Great Britain. While in the U.S. She filed for citizenship and it was later granted. Fanny wrote a travel diary during this time called Views on Society and Manners in America and it was published in 1821.It was in 1824 when Marquis Lafayette traveled to the united states with Fanny to see the nation he help liberate fifty years earlier. It was in 1825 when she first introduced her idea about Nashoba to Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson but they both decline this quest of hers due to old age. Nashoba was a community that was supposed to help emancipate slaves, but eventually failed .It did not fail due to lack of vision, but because of her lack of knowledge on the human processes and how embedded they are in us(electric Scotland and great women). Furthermore, once Nashoba failed she continued to lecture and write about her views as co-owner and editor of th...