New Project: Travelling in Liberty

There is a new initiative to systematically transcribe the contents of Benjamin R. Tucker’s Liberty, a project near and dear to my heart, but one I’ve never found enough support for to pursue seriously and consistently. Put Transcribing Liberty in your blogroll and show some love for this sort of difficult, and all too frequently thankless, sort of work.

Am I behind yet? I’m wrestling with the best approach to these early issues, and to the archiving end of things in general. It may be that I end up creating pdf files of some of these early issues that are useful to read in their entirety, just to get a sense of the jumping-off place for this expedition, but which aren’t all that exciting in comparison to later periods of Liberty. In any event, my scanning and posting chores are not always going to line up neatly, as other projects, such as the new Lab Reports, cause me to […]

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] One of the bits of Liberty‘s prehistory that undoubtedly needs to be better documented is Tucker’s entry into the anarchist movement. I recently purchased microfilm of The Word, Ezra Heywood’s paper, and just ran across this in the Nov. 1872 issue: B. R. Tucker, New Bedford, Mass. ‘I hope to do some work for the Labor Cause but first wish to study the question that I may thoroughly understand it. For this reason I send for your publications. I wish you would hold a Convention in New Bedford. The conservatives here […]