Tweet of the Week: Frances Wright

Frances Wright was a Scottish American Immigrant born in 1795. She moved to the US in 1818 at the age of 23 and spent 2 years traveling the country. She was a writer, lecturer, feminist, abolitionist, and social reformer. She co-founded The Free Inquirer newspaper, wrote for various other journals, and founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee in 1825. Walt Whitman great admired her.