Hero to Worlds - Chapter 22

Lafayette and his son George had just gotten embroiled in a failed carbonary conspiracy to overthrow King Louis XVIII, which is a big reason Lafayette thought James Monroe's invitation to visit the United States sounded like such a great idea. Fanny Wright and her sister Camilla desperately wanted to accompany Lafayette, and his children fought over whether it was appropriate for young unmarried women to travel with their father. It's a tour of what the Young American Republic looked like in the 1820s at the precise midpoint between the American Revolution and the American Civil War.