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Hard Cash: An Essay To Show That Financial Monopolies Hinder Enterprise And Defraud Both Labor And Capital ; That Panics And Business Revulsions, Caused By Arbitrary Interference With Production And Exchange, Will Be Effectually Prevented Only Through Free Money; Volume 40001 Of Library Of American Civilization
Ezra Hervey Heywood
Co-operative Publishing Co., 1875
Business & Economics; Economics; Theory; Business & Economics / Economics / Theory; Business & Economics / Money & Monetary Policy; Currency question
Yours or mine. An essay, to show the true basis of property, and the causes of its unequal distribut
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Uncivil Liberty: An Essay To Show The Injustice And Impolicy Of Ruling Woman Without Her Consent
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Uncivil Liberty: An Essay To Show The Injustice And Impolicy Of Ruling Woman Without Her Consent
Ezra Hervey Heywood
Co-operative Publishing Co., 1877
Husband and wife; Women; Women's rights
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Heywood was a native born American individualist anarchist active in abolitionist, labor-reform and free love movements. In the face of increasing social conformity in the post-Civil War period, Heywood developed radical economic anti-governmental solutions to society's problems. Due to his steadfast advocacy of labor reform and women's rights, Heywood attracted a large following to his home and press in Princeton, Mass.,-- and the relentless persecution of sexual purity advocate Anthony Comstock.
Ezra Hervey Heywood was an American social activist. He was slavery abolitionist and advocate of equal rights for women.
Background
Ezra Heywood was born on September 29, 1829, in Princeton, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Ezra Hoar, an enterprising farmer related to Senator George F. Hoar, and Dorcas (Roper) Hoar, a collateral descendant of John Locke. After the father’s death in 1845 the children took the name Heywood in 1848 by legislative sanction. In a country village he spent the greater part of his life.
Education
From Westminster Academy Ezra went to Brown University, graduating in 1856, but remaining for two years’ further study, with the Congregationalist ministry in view.
Career
Ezra Heywood was an advocate of women’s rights, and his commencement address was on “Milton - The Advocate of Intellectual Freedom. ” An encounter with William Lloyd Garrison at an abolitionist meeting in Framingham influenced Heywood to become an active agent of the Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society. Thus he became a frequent and popular platform speaker. In 1865 he married a woman who shared his every interest. Heywood removed to Worcester where he lived until 1871, when he returned to Princeton. He set up a press from which, aided only by his children, he poured out an astonishing volume of propaganda. Abbreviated titles of his chief pamphlets are: Cupid’s Yokes, on marriage reform, which ran to fifty thousand copies and for mailing which Heywood and De Robigne M. Bennett were prosecuted; Uncivil Liberty, advocating women’s rights, which ran to eighty thousand copies; Social Ethics. Free Rum. Assures Temperance; The Labor Movement; Hard Cash; Free Trade; The Great Strike of 1877.
In May 1872, appeared the first number of The Word, a monthly journal of reform, which continued until April 1893, interrupted only by Heywood’s imprisonment. Mrs. Heywood supplied some of the most daring contributions, which her husband never revised, even when he disapproved of them, so strong was his belief in women’s rights.
Heywood’s writings were courageous, plainspoken, earnest, but without humor and very lengthy. Their importance lies less in their substance than in the fact that they were so much in advance of contemporary thought and so widely read. These two fiery spirits soon attracted others.
The federal statute of 1873 against mailing obscene matter, obtained by Anthony Comstock, was bitterly opposed by Heywood, whose publications were equally objectionable to Comstock. In November 1877, Comstock arrested Heywood in Boston at a meeting of the Free Love Society. Heywood was convicted, June 1878, in the United States court, for mailing obscene publications to Comstock, who had applied for them under an assumed name. He was sentenced to $100 fine and two years imprisonment at hard labor in Dedham jail. A second arrest in 1882 by Comstock, at Princeton, for similarly induced mailing was followed by acquittal, Heywood appearing in his own defense. Upon a third arrest, under the Massachusetts obscenity law, in 1883, Heywood’s neighbors, despite their strong disagreement with his views, formed a defense committee and petitioned against the prosecution, which was not pressed. In 1890 he was convicted in the United States court for obscene passages in The Word, written by Mrs. Heywood, and sentenced to two years imprisonment, which he served.
The family were somewhat ostracized in a small village, but were nevertheless respected. The neighbors used occasionally to buy The Word to see what shocking statements it contained; yet a Princeton farmer once concealed a whole issue in his barn to avoid its seizure by the authorities. A few months after his last release Heywood died in Boston, while on a visit for medical treatment. His funeral was typical of his life, without minister, prayers, or Scripture, but the friends who were present spoke as they were impelled to do. He was buried in the family lot at Princeton, in a plain unpainted pine box.
After the Civil War, which he opposed as a pacifist, he carried over the abolitionist spirit and methods into social and economic radicalism.
They organized a radical society, the Union Reform League, which held conventions in Princeton.
Personality
Those who knew him well attest his kindliness of spirit, sincerity of motive, and the integrity of his private life.
Connections
Ezra Heywood married, June 6, 1865, a woman who shared his every interest, Angela Fiducia Tilton of Worcester. They had four children together named Psyche, Angelo, Vesta, and Hermes. Mrs. Heywood supplied some of the most daring contributions, which her husband never revised, even when he disapproved of them, so strong was his belief in women’s rights.