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Robert Dale Owen

Robert Dale OwenBorn: 9-Nov-1801
Birthplace: Glasgow, Scotland
Died: 24-Jun-1877
Location of death: Lake George, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Maple Hill Cemetery, New Harmony, IN

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Activist, Politician
Party Affiliation: Democratic

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Wrong of Slavery

Father: Robert Owen (English social reformer)

    US Ambassador to the Two Sicilies (1853-58)
    Indiana State House of Representatives (1851-52)
    US Congressman, Indiana (1843-47)
    Indiana State House of Representatives (1836-39)
    Free Enquirer Founder and Editor, NY (1828-32)
    Scottish Ancestry
    Welsh Ancestry

Is the subject of books:
Robert Dale Owen: A Biography, 1940, BY: Richard William Leopold
The Incorrigible Idealist: Robert Dale Owen in America, 1940, BY: Elinor Pancoast and Anne E. Lincoln

Author of books:
Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World (1860, nonfiction)
The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States (1864, nonfiction)
Threading My Way: Twenty-seven Years of Autobiography (1874, memoir)






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