About Moncure D. Conway: Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Methodist, Unitarian and Freethinker (admirer of Thomas Paine) minister, biographer, historian, and writer, who lived most of his life abroad.
In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the 's, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it was a memorable experience. Our lost leaders, -- , ,...