""Frances Wright (1795�1852) was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, feminist, abolitionist and social reformer who became a U.S. citizen in 1825. That year she founded the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee as a Utopian community to prepare slaves for emancipation, but it lasted only three years. Her Views of Society and Manners in America (1821) brought her the most attention as a critique of the new nation."" In 1818 Frances and Camilla Wright came to New York where Frances produced a play she had written named Altorf about the struggle for Swiss independence. After returning to England Wright wrote Views of Society and Manners in America (1821) and A Few Days in Athens (1822). In Views of Society Wright praised America�s experiments in democracy, and hailed American life as progressive in contrast to the backwardness of the Old World. In 1821, Wright went to France to meet Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette who had invited her there after reading some of her work. When Lafayette came to America in 1824, Wright and his sister Camilla traveled with him, but not as official members of his delegation. They were with Lafayette when he was entertained at the homes of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Since she was not part of the official delegation, Wright was free to move about on her own and traveled the U.S. extensively. While traveling down the Mississippi, she was appalled by the practice of slavery. She wrote: �The sight of slavery is revolting everywhere. But to inhale the impure breath of its pestilence in the free winds of America is odious beyond all that imagination can conceive.� Later that year Wright visited New Harmony on the Wabash River in southwest Indiana where Robert Owen and his son Robert Dale Owen were trying to establish a Utopian society. Owen believed that communal living would enable people to live happier, more economical and more productive lives." (http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/01/frances-wright.html).