Moncure conway autobiography vs biography
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Early Years
Moncure Daniel Conway was born on March 17, 1832, in Stafford County, the son of county magistrate Walker Peyton Conway, whose relatives included the families of former United States presidents James Madison and George Washington.
His mother, Margaret Stone Daniel, was the granddaughter of Thomas Stone, Maryland signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
Moncure conway autobiography vs biography
An uncle, Judge Eustace Conway, served as an important states’ rights advocate in the Virginia General Assembly. His great uncle, Peter Vivian Daniel, was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1842–1860) who sided with the majority in both the 1847 decision that affirmed the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and in the Dred Scott decision (1857), which ruled, in part, that African Americans could never become U.S.
citizens.
In 1849, Conway earned an AB degree from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, after which he studied law in Warrenton, Virginia. In 1850