Ezra Heywood
Born	Ezra Hervey Hoar (1829-09-29)September 29, 1829 United States
Died	May 22, 1893(1893-05-22) (aged 63) United States
Occupation(s)	Activist,abolitionist
Spouse	Angela Heywood

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Ezra Hervey Heywood (/ˈheɪˌwʊd/; September 29, 1829 – May 22, 1893),^[1] known asEzra Hervey Hoar before 1848,^[2][3] was an Americanindividualist anarchist, slaveryabolitionist, and advocate of equal rights for women.

Heywood co-founded the New England Labor Reform League in 1869 with individualist anarchistWilliam Batchelder Greene. The league advocated for the "abolition of class laws and false customs, whereby legitimate enterprise is defrauded by speculative monopoly." and favored "[f]ree contracts, free money, free markets, free transit, and free land".^[4]

In May, 1872 Heywood, a supporter ofwomen's suffrage andfree love activistVictoria Woodhull's free speech rights, began editing individualist anarchist magazineThe Word from his home in Princeton, Massachusetts.^[5] He was tried in 1878 for mailing "obscene material", his pamphletCupid's Yokes: or, The Binding Forces of Conjugal Life: An Essay to Consider Some Moral and Physiological Phases of Love and Marriage, Wherein is Asserted the Natural Right and Necessity of Sexual Self-Government, which attacked traditional notions of marriage – at the instigation of postal inspectorAnthony Comstock, who also hadTruth Seeker editorD. M. Bennett arrested. Convicted of violating the 1873Comstock Act, Heywood was sentenced to two years' hard labor^[6] at theNorfolk County Jail.^[7]

Heywood used his own notation, Y.L. (Year of Love), in replacementA. D.^[8]

Heywood met his wifeAngela Heywood through her work in the abolitionist movement. They had four children together named Psyche, Angelo, Vesta, and Hermes.^[9]

• Uncivil Liberty: An Essay to Show the Injustice and Impolicy of Ruling Woman Without Her Consent (1873) by Ezra Heywood – one of the firstindividualist feminist essays, by Ezra Heywood (with an introduction byJames J. Martin)
• Cupid's Yokes: or, The Binding Forces of Conjugal Life: An Essay to Consider some Moral and Physiological Phases of Love and Marriage by Ezra Heywood – a free-love essay defending the natural right of "sexual self-government" as opposed to marriage

• Anarchism in the United States
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• Martin Blatt,Free Love and Anarchism: The Biography of Ezra Heywood (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989)
• Martin Blatt, editor,The Collected Works of Ezra Heywood (Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1985)

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• Chapter V of James J. Martin'sMen Against the State contains a large section calledEzra Heywood, Pamphleteer
• Ezra Heywood & Benjamin R. Tucker by Martin Blatt
• A biography of Heywood on the anniversary of a protest at his arrest
• A chronology of Emma Goldman's life and the anarchist movement

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