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Ezra Heywood

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Ezra Heywood
Ezra Heywood was an anarchist, imprisoned for “obscenity” back in 1878 June for his advocacy of “free love”. He was pardoned by US President Hayes on December 20 after popular agitation for his release.

After the Civil War, the abolitionist Ezra Heywood turned his attention toward the labour movement and, eventually, toward free love. The Heywoodsʼ The Word — subtitled “A Monthly Journal of Reform,” — was connected to radical individualism both through its editors and through its contributors, who included Josiah Warren, Benjamin Tucker, and J.K. Ingalls. Initially, The Word presented free love as a minor theme which was expressed within a labour reform format. But the publication later evolved into an explicitly free love periodical.

See also[edit]

  • Martin Henry Blatt, Free Love and Anarchism: The Biography of Ezra Heywood (University of Illinois Press, 1989).
  • http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle1996/le961210.html
  • See also Kennth Rexrothʼs chapter on Josiah Warren in Communalism: From Its Origins to the 20th Century