Nashoba Community
OwenismPopulated places established in 1825Shelby County, TennesseeUtopian communities in the United States
The Nashoba Community was an experimental project of Frances "Fanny" Wright, initiated in 1825 to educate and emancipate slaves. It was located in a 2,000-acre (8 km2) woodland on the side of present-day Germantown, Tennessee, a Memphis suburb, along the Wolf River. It was a small-scale test of her full-compensation emancipation plan in which no slaveholders would lose money for emancipating slaves. Instead, Wright proposed that, through a system of unified labor, the slaves would buy their freedom and then be transported to Haiti or the settlements which would become Liberia.
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Farm Road, Memphis
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| Latitude | Longitude |
|---|---|
| N 35.1465 ° | E -89.8449 ° |
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Farm Road
Farm Road
38120 Memphis
Tennessee, United States
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