For more than a decade, I’ve been gathering material on the attempts by Josiah Warren and his allies to promote the principles of equitable commerce, “cost the limit of price” and individual sovereignty. These pages will collect that material in roughly chronological order.
A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT FOR EQUITABLE COMMERCE:
- Josiah Warren’s 1821 lamp patent
- Philanthropos, “Time-Magazine” (poem)(1827)
- Equitable Commerce in 1828
- Equitable Commerce in 1830
- Josiah Warren, “Social Experiment” (1831)
- George Warren, “Songs sung at the celebration of Paine’s birth day, in New Harmony Jan. 19, 1839“
- Josiah Warren, “Manifesto” (1841)
- Thomas and Maria L. Varney, “Equitable Commerce” (1846)
- Maria L. Varney in “The Herald of Truth” (1847–1848)
- Equitable Commerce in 1849
- Stephen Pearl Andrews, “Equitable Commerce” (1850)
- Josiah Warren and Spiritualism (1851)
- Josiah Warren, “Positions Defined” (1853)
- William Pare, “Equitable Villages in America” (1855)
- Josiah Warren, “Written Music Remodeled and Invested with the Simplicity of an Exact Science” (1860)
- Josiah Warren, “Social Reform in America” (1862)
- A Counsellor (Josiah Warren), “Modern Government and its True Mission” (1862)
- Josiah Warren, “Response to the Call of the National Labor Union” (1871)
- Josiah Warren, “The Motives for Communism” (1872-73)
- Josiah Warren: A Most Unlikely Internationalist (1873)
- Josiah Warren’s Last Letter (1874)
- Sidney H. Morse, “Liberty and Wealth” (1882)
- Sidney H. Morse, “Ethics of the Homestead Strike” (1892)
- William Bailie, “Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist” (1906) + “Josiah Warren,” from The New Harmony Movement (1905)
- Clarence L. Swartz on Warren and Bailie (1905-06)
