Tom Brown's School Days

He was a statesman there.

He was He had a lot of titles, but essentially he was the author of Tom Brown's School Days, and he was very well known all around the world.

He had this idea to establish a community that was a Christian socialist community, And he did it for the second sons of England.

So at that time in 18, around 1877, 1878, there was a recession that was going on.

They weren't supposed to do anything that could be thought of as a trade, and other things like politics should be left to their titled brothers.

In writing books like Tom Brown's School Days, author Thomas Hughes gave a lot of thought to the kinds of personalities he'd encountered growing up in that environment and how hard it sometimes was for younger sons to find a satisfactory path for their lives.

He came to believe that some British elites would be much happier doing more physical or practical kinds of work, and he thought they'd thrive in a place like America, where people didn't get so hung up on class distinctions.

So he found some land in Morgan County, Tennessee, and developed it as a place where those men from the UK could come to shed the limits and expectations of the British upper class.