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equal, with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” With her usual energy and desire to reduce theory to practice, she resolved on making an experiment which should demonstrate the superiority of free to slave labor, and test the capability of the negro, when properly educated, for self-dependence. She purchased 2,000 acres of land in Tennessee, together with several families of negroes, and for several years, in company with her sister and Mr. Whitby, her sister's husband, devoted herself to educating them for freedom. She was too ardent and impetuous, however; she feared neither hardship nor danger in her self-imposed tasks. R. D. Owen, who was one of ten trustees of her property at Nashoba, says she rashly exposed herself to the hot, broiling sun in July and August weather, riding long distances on horseback, and sometimes sleeping all night in the forest, when it was more convenient to do so. These imprudences, and her own eagerness