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Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical

Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust

Explore America"s past through the unexpected story of an extraordinary early 19th-century woman. Frances Wright, the reformer, writer, and activist, was an abolitionist before it was cool and feminist long before the word existed. Why was she forgotten in the standard narratives of American history? Over 8 episodes, you’ll hear what made her infamous and inspiring from scholars, history researchers, and writings by her, her friends, and her enemies. Turns out, Americans have been arguing about

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00:42:06

Erasure: Why Brilliant Women Disappear

Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical ·

2024/09/25

Over this series, we’ve learned how famous Frances Wright was in her lifetime: influential, well-connected, notorious, scandalous. So how could her star fade so quickly? Where are the Broadway shows, biopics, and bestsellers about her? In this episode, we trace Frances Wright’s later years, her death and burial in Cincinnati, Ohio, and what happened to her legacy.Some of the people closest to Wright didn’t keep her fame alive, which is heartbreaking, but it’s also part of a bigger pattern. Why do

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00:48:37

Priestess of Beelzebub: Going Viral in 1830s America

Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical ·

2024/09/11

Frances Wright’s public speaking caused riots, raised hackles, and won over fans across the country. We’d call it going viral: reaching a level of fame that gets everyone talking, whether they react with revulsion or adoration. In this episode, we ask Ashley Rattner (Jacksonville State University) to dig into the American media landscape in the 1830s: how could someone go viral for giving public lectures? Why was it so provocative to have a woman speak her mind that way, and how did people

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00:50:58

Red Harlot: Sexuality and Motherhood

Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical ·

2024/08/28

Who (or even what) is a woman and who gets to say? What are women supposed to do in society? How should we as individuals and as a society relate to sex? We’re asking many of the same questions folks in Fanny’s day asked about the nature of womanhood, femininity, sexuality, and mothering. Our answers may differ, but one thing’s clear: Motherhood (or cat-loving lack thereof) and sexuality are still messing with us in America and are still prone to become political footballs. In this episode, we

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01:00:39

Amalgamation and what really made people hate Frances...

Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical ·

2024/08/14

Nashoba, Frances Wright’s intentional community designed to end slavery, went sideways for reasons we’ll cover in this episode. The physical abuse of the enslaved there might be what we find most upsetting nowadays, but what really got people worked up about Nashoba at the time?It’s something called “amalgamation,” the mixing of people of different racial backgrounds. Frances Wright openly advocated this mixing and saw it as the future of America. Many people were outraged. For this episode we go

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00:44:57

The Trouble with Nashoba

Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical ·

2024/07/31

One of Frances Wright’s most famous? notorious? undertakings was founding an intentional community of her own inspired by New Harmony (for more about New Harmony, listen to Episode 3).Located in what was then the wilds of Western Tennessee, Wright called her community Nashoba and crafted a plan that would use the economic power of cooperation to prove that slavery could be undone step by step. Enslaved people and free (mostly white) people would work side by side. The enslaved would receive skills

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00:50:01

Why Utopian Experiments Matter

Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical ·

2024/07/17

Frances Wright imagined a community system that would accomplish the seemingly impossible, and she was a product of her times in this. Communities like the one Wright tried to establish at Nashoba were all the rage in the early 19th century. What did Frances Wright learn from the Harmony Society and Robert Owen’s New Harmony in Indiana? What did Wright learn from her friend and supporter George Flower’s earlier experiences in Illinois? How do these communities fit into the history of American life,

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00:40:17

Writing While Female: How Women Wrote in Wright’s Time

Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical ·

2024/07/03

It’s easy to forget the limitations put on women’s basic intellectual development in Wright’s era, and how women experienced these limits. How did women write and speak publicly when this was very much discouraged—yet often practiced? Reflecting on educational literature of Wright’s time that articulated limited ambitions for girl’s intellects, how did real women navigate the tensions, contradictions, and hidden opportunities of these limitations? Our expert guest this week is Etta Madden, emerita

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00:33:51

Frances Who?

Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical ·

2024/06/19

If you visit Frances Wright’s grave in Cincinnati's gracious Spring Grove cemetery, you’d never know that Wright set the tone for an era. Even in a decade filled with mavericks and firebrands, she broke boundaries unlike anyone else and inspired some of the most powerful political and literary figures of her times. Feminist, abolitionist, and one of the first female newspaper editors in the US, she advocated for everything from interracial relationships to women’s rights to new economic

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00:03:17

Introducing Frances Wright

Frances Wright: America’s Forgotten Radical ·

2024/06/05

How did America forget about Frances Wright, reformer, philosopher, writer, activist, abolitionist before it was cool, feminist long before the word existed? Find out from scholars, history researchers, and the writings of her friends and enemies. We’re historians who love America’s overlooked firebrands. Join Tristra Yeager and Eleanor Rust as we explore the life and time of a Forgotten American Radical on a new documentary podcast series, out late June 2024. Frances Wright: America’s

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