A story of a young lady named Frances Wright who arrived to New York from Europe in 1818. She was fond of the people in New York and impressed with her surroundings. She wrote letters to her friend back in Scotland describing her wonderful days in the new land. Her letters were eventually published as a book entitled View of Society and Manners in America. In the book she described how women had the freedom to marry whom ever they wish and how people dressed more modesty than those in Europe. Critics, however, attacked her for being too one-sided, because she failed to talk about the disgraceful trading of slaves in America and that arrogant personalities of aristocrats.
Story by: Rochel DeNore
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