Lafayette and the Wright Sisters - A Memoir

Lafayette was pleased to demonstrate his aversion to racist social norms. Nellie Lewis did everything in her considerable social powers to ice the Wright sisters out as unwelcome disruptions. They departed Philadelphia on October 5 and moved on to Baltimore. Lafayette reunited with an now 83-year-old former French soldier named Francois Du Bois Martine, one of the small band of officers who first traveled to America with Lafayette in 1777. While at Fort McHenry, they also linked up with John Quincy Adams, presently secretary of state and candidate for president.