Frances Wright was a woman’s rights and emancipation advocate in the early nineteenth century. She spoke on the abolition of slavery and on how religion was systematically repressing people from reaching their potential. Frances grew up in London, and toured the U.S. from 1818 to 1820, and spoke enthusiastically of her experiences in her published writings, “Views of Society and Manners in America”. Her work gained a massive following and was translated into three languages. …showed first 75 words of 322 total…

…showed last 75 words of 322 total…religious liberation. In short Swamp fever, sensational negative publicity, and other problems caused the experiment to end in failure. In 1828, Wright began to lecture, and became coeditor of the New Harmony Gazette with the American legislator Robert Dale Owen. The next year she and Owen founded the Free Inquirer as successor to the Gazette. In both her lectures and her writings Frances Wright vigorously advocated abolition, universal education, birth control, and equal rights for women.