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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC00267.248 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1861 |
| Title | The Rejected stone: or insurrection vs. resurrection in America. By a native of Virginia |
| Date | 1861 |
| Author | Conway, Moncure Daniel (1832-1907) |
| Document Type | Book |
| Content Description | Conway's authorship marked as "By a Native of Virginia." Published by Walker, Wise, and Company at 245 Washington Street. Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. First edition. A plea for emancipation divided into 19 chapters. Original red printed wrappers, which are fragile (front cover is barely attached). |
| Subjects | Literature and Language Arts Abolition Reform Movement African American History Slavery Civil War Religion Emancipation Transcendentalism |
| Place written | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Arts & Literature; Slavery & Abolition; Religion |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | Conway was an American author and preacher. An ardent abolitionist, he moved from Cincinnati to Boston in 1861 and became editor of the "Commonwealth" in Boston, and wrote The Rejected Stone (1861) and The Golden Hour (1862). Conway lectured in England during the Civil War in the interests of the North. Brought up as a Methodist, he became a Unitarian minister and later rejected Unitarianism to become a preacher of free thought. Besides editing and contributing essays to periodicals, he was the author of over 70 books, including a biography of Thomas Paine (1892), whose works he also edited (4 vol., 1894–96).I Nevins 209, Sabin 16221, Dumon 44. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |