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| | FRANCES WRIGHT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Like William Maclure and the five children of Robert Owen who resided in New Harmony, Frances Wright, known in her day as Fanny Wright, was born in Scotland. |
 | | That same year, Wright urged Congress toward A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States Without Danger of Loss to the Citizens of the South, and she purchased 640 acres near Memphis, naming the tract Nashoba. |
 | | Among Wright's themes were the liberalizing of divorce laws, birth control, free state-run secular education, the political organization of laborers, equal rights for women, and objectionable ecclesiastical influences in politics. |
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