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Should labor be paid or not? part 1

September 20, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’ve been involved in a number of discussions recently on the issue of wages, as it was understood by the mutualists and their successors among the Liberty group. There seems to be a widespread sense, […]

A few new William B. Greene citations

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Thanks to Brady Campbell, who did a little research legwork at the American Antiquarian Society, we have a better idea about William B. Greene’s contributions the Worcester Palladium. Here are his notes: Equality – – […]

“The Spirit of the Age” at Google Books!

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

It’s a very, very good day for those interested in the earliest manifestations of mutualism in the United States. William Henry Channing’s The Spirit of the Age (1849-1850) is now available, in its entirety, with […]

Josephine Lowell – extracts on the Greene family

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

William Rhinelander Stewart. The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell. New York: Macmillan, 1911. [page 13] I know a great many men in the army who are: My brother, and first cousin, H. S. Russell, […]

Greene family portraits

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Charles Carleton Coffin. History of Boscawen and Webster, from 1733 to 1878. Concord, N. H.: Republican Press Association, 1878. 384-394. GREENE, NATHANIEL. Nathaniel Greene was born in Boscawen, 20 May, 1797. He was christened Peter; […]

Charles Sumner visits the Greenes in Paris, 1857

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Edward Lillie Pearce, Charles Sumner. Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner, Vol. III, 1845-1860. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894. “March 26 [1857]. Wrote letters home ; visited the Invalides, and saw the new tomb of Napoleon […]

Lilian Freeman Clarke visits Anna Greene in Paris, 1882

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

James Freeman Clarke. Autobiography, Diary and Correspondence. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1889. 369. LONDON, May 29,1882. Our voyage was rather long, cold, foggy and disagreeble, and we were glad last Thursday […]

Notice of William B. Greene, Transcendentalism, etc

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“New Publications.” The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review. 45, 5 (May, 1871), 544. TRANSCENDENTALISM, and THE FACTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, and the Philosophy of Mr. Herbert Spencer, are the titles of two remarkable pamphlets by Mr. […]

Notice of William B. Greene, The Blazing Star

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“Notice of New Books,” The New Englander, XXXII, 1 (January, 1873), 183. MR. WILLIAM B. GREENE’S BLAZING STAR† seems to us to shine by a reflected light, and that light, whatever there is, is reflected […]

Ezra Heywood and prison vaccinations

September 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

“An American Experience,” The Vaccination Inquirer and Health Review, 1 (April, 1879), 12. AN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. MR. EZRA H. HEYWOOD, a fellow labourer with W. Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Francis Jackson, and Parker Pillsbury, for […]