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Rh heard or read of any enthusiasm approaching hers, except in some few instances, in ages past, of religious fanaticism. The only white persons we found at Nashoba, besides Miss Wright, were her sister, Mrs. Whitby, and that sister’s husband. There were thirty or forty slaves there, but no schools yet established, although books and other materials were collected, and two teachers engaged.”

But in spite of Frances Wright's devotion and perseverance, her Nashoba experiment proved a failure, from causes beyond her control, and we find her, one year later, giving her slaves their freedom, sending them by safe hands to Hayti, where they were placed under the protection of the President, while her thoughtful liberality provided each one a small capital with which to begin a life of freedom.

She had previous to this several times visited Mr. Owen’s colony at New Harmony, Indiana, with a view to gain hints and ideas by which to guide her own little