Raritan Bay Union

The Raritan Bay Union was a utopian community in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA, from 1853 to 1860.

Raritan Bay Union in 1858

History

It was started by Marcus Spring and Rebecca Buffum (1812-1911). Maud Honeyman Green writes, "The Union established a progressive boarding school that was a pioneer in co-education. Girl students were encouraged to speak in public, engage in sports, and act in plays, activities that were frowned upon in other schools. Abolitionists Angelina Grimké and Sarah Grimké were teachers in the school, which was run by Angelina’s husband, Theodore Weld. Several other noted reformers came to teach and lecture at the school. The Welds’ school operated until about 1861.

Others who lived at Raritan Bay Union included Charles Kingsley, Caroline Kirkland, and James G. Birney.[1] The early women's rights activist Clarina I. H. Nichols left her two youngest children at Raritan Bay Union when she set out with the New England Emigrant Aid Society for Kansas Territory in 1855.[2]

See also

Archive

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 July 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Thoreau Survey of Eagleswood
  2. Eickhoff, Diane (2006). Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights. Kansas City: Quindaro Press. p. 109. ISBN 9780976443445.

Further reading
  • New York Times; August 22, 1874; Obituary; Marcus Spring
  • Richard C. S. Trahair; Utopias and Utopians: An Historical Dictionary ISBN 0-313-29465-8
  • Maud Honeyman Green, "Raritan Bay Union, Eagleswood, New Jersey", Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Vol. 68, No. 1 (January 1950)
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