Ezra Heywood
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Script error: No such module "sidebar". Template:Anarchism US Ezra Hervey Heywood (Template:IPAc-en; September 29, 1829 – May 22, 1893),[1] known as Ezra Hervey Hoar before 1848,[2][3] was an American individualist anarchist, slavery abolitionist, and advocate of equal rights for women.
Activism
Heywood co-founded the New England Labor Reform League in 1869 with individualist anarchist William Batchelder Greene. The league advocated for the "abolition of class laws and false customs, whereby legitimate enterprise is defrauded by speculative monopoly." and favored "[f]ree contracts, free money, free markets, free transit, and free land".[4]
In May, 1872 Heywood, a supporter of women's suffrage and free love activist Victoria Woodhull's free speech rights, began editing individualist anarchist magazine The Word from his home in Princeton, Massachusetts.[5] He was tried in 1878 for mailing "obscene material", his pamphlet Cupid's Yokes: or, The Binding Forces of Conjugal Life: An Essay to Consider Some Moral and Physiological Phases of Love and Marriage, Wherein is Asserted the Natural Right and Necessity of Sexual Self-Government, which attacked traditional notions of marriageTemplate:Spaced ndashat the instigation of postal inspector Anthony Comstock, who also had Truth Seeker editor D. M. Bennett arrested. Convicted of violating the 1873 Comstock Act, Heywood was sentenced to two years' hard labor[6] at the Norfolk County Jail.[7]
Heywood used his own notation, Y.L. (Year of Love), in replacement A. D.[8]
Personal life
Heywood met his wife Angela Heywood through her work in the abolitionist movement. They had four children together named Psyche, Angelo, Vesta, and Hermes.[9]
Works
- Uncivil Liberty: An Essay to Show the Injustice and Impolicy of Ruling Woman Without Her Consent (1873) by Ezra Heywood – one of the first individualist feminist essays, by Ezra Heywood (with an introduction by James J. Martin)
- Cupid's Yokes: or, The Binding Forces of Conjugal Life: An Essay to Consider some Moral and Physiological Phases of Love and Marriage by Ezra Heywood – a free-love essay defending the natural right of "sexual self-government" as opposed to marriage
See also
- Anarchism in the United States
- Anarchism and issues related to love and sex
- Faneuil Hall
- Individualist feminism
- Pioneers of American Freedom: Origin of Liberal and Radical Thought in America
- List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States
References
- ↑ The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: From disunionism to the brink of war, 1850-1860, Template:ISBN, pg. 545.
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- ↑ The Free Love Movement and Radical Individualism Template:Webarchive by Wendy McElroy.
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- ↑ "Heywood, Ezra H." in The New Encyclopedia of UNBELIEF (Amherst, N. Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007), p. 389.
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Further reading
- Martin Blatt, Free Love and Anarchism: The Biography of Ezra Heywood (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989)
- Martin Blatt, editor, The Collected Works of Ezra Heywood (Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1985)
External links
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- Chapter V of James J. Martin's Men Against the State contains a large section called Ezra Heywood, Pamphleteer
- Ezra Heywood & Benjamin R. Tucker by Martin Blatt
- A biography of Heywood on the anniversary of a protest at his arrest
- A chronology of Emma Goldman's life and the anarchist movement
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