One of the very earliest land bank/mutual bank documents is available online: The Key of Wealth: Or, A New Way for Improving of Trade, by William Potter (1650).
Anarchism
Socialism in Massachusetts, the Palladium version
You can look at this wiki page for a comparison of the Worcester Palladium and Equality versions of William B. Greene’s essay, “Socialism in Massachusetts,” both from late 1849. MediaWiki’s ability to collate versions should […]
Anarchism
John Adams, mutual bank advocate
With two other researchers now working on Josiah Warren, I’ve been trying (as regular readers will know) to get notes together and sources archived. It’s rather wonderful, I must say, to be working in a […]
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1850: The Hotbed of Mutual Banking Agitation
In the years 1849 and 1850, William B. Greene published Equality and Mutual Banking, describing his Christian Mutualism and setting out the details of the real estate based mutual bank. He was at that time, […]