The Freeman Press The following three pamphlets represent the work of Ishill's son Anatole, who was educated at the Modern School. The colophon of each pamphlet indicates that they were printed and typeset in February 1938, when Anatole was twenty years old. As can be seen, each pamphlet was set in a different typeface: The Malthusians in Cromwell, A Sermon to Donkeys on their Packs in Bookman, and The Sovereignty of the Individual in Garamond.
The Sovereignty Of The Individual, by Stephen Pearl Andrews. Introduction by Josiah Warren. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Freeman Press, 1938.
Garamond type; 300 copies on Strathmore Wayside Text; wrappers; 4.25 x 7.25 inches; 20 p. [Typeset by Anatole Freeman-Ishill]
Born in Massachusetts, Andrews (1812- 1886) first rose to prominence in the South as a lawyer and abolitionist. He moved to New York, where he became interested in linguistics, and later equitable commerce. He established a utopian community in New York City called Unity Home, and it was during this time that he began to formulate his philosophy of universology. This essay, written in 1857, originally appeared in The Periodical Letter, edited by Josiah Warren (1798-1874). Andrews considered the sovereignty of the individual to be "the basis of harmonious intercourse amongst equals, precisely as the equal Sovereignty of States is the basis of harmonious intercourse between nations mutually recognizing their independence of each other." (p. 18) According to Paul Avrich, Andrews, like Warren, was "a pioneer of the nineteenth century anarchist movement" in America.
The Malthusians, by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Freeman Press, 1938.
Cromwell type; 300 copies on Strathmore Wayside Text; wrappers; 4.25 x 7.25 inches; 17 p. [Typeset by Anatole Freeman-Ishill]
Robert Malthus was a leading English political economist of the early nineteenth century. His theories of population growth, and the resultant pressures on food production, influenced countless economists and political theorists. Proudhon, a French anarchist, is probably best known for his tract What is Property? He was the original exponent of the theory that property is theft. This essay is a repudiation of those who took Malthus' ideas to suggest that population control, which Proudhon reads as an attempt to destroy the working class, was the answer to the inevitable clash between population and food production.
A Sermon To Donkeys On Their Packs, by Ludwig Börne. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Freeman Press, 1938.
Bookman type; 300 copies on Strathmore Wayside Text; wrappers; 4.25 x 7.25 inches; 18 p. [Typeset by Anatole Freeman-Ishill]
Börne, a nineteenth century German author, was heavily involved with the German radicals, particularly the Jungdeutschland, which encouraged a trend toward liberalism in both politics and religion. This pamphlet, which was reproduced from Benjamin Tucker's Liberty, is a metaphorical story of the burden of taxation.