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    Emma Goldman Biographical Sketch
    Emma Goldman Biographical Sketch
    Emma Goldman Biographical Sketch
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    Emma Goldman Biographical Sketch

    By Charles Allan Madison

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Emma Goldman Biographical Sketch - Charles Allan Madison

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Emma Goldman, by Charles A. Madison

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      Title: Emma Goldman

      Biographical Sketch

      Author: Charles A. Madison

      Release Date: September 4, 2010 [EBook #33628]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EMMA GOLDMAN ***

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      EMMA GOLDMAN

      Biographical Sketch

      By

      CHARLES A. MADISON

      Author of

      CRITICS AND CRUSADERS

      Published by

      Libertarian Book Club, Inc.

      P. O. Box 842

      General Post Office New York 1, N. Y.

      May 13, 1960

      Reprinted from

      CRITICS AND CRUSADERS

      by Charles A. Madison

      with the permission of

      Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.

      EMMA GOLDMAN

      ANARCHIST REBEL

      The hanging of several anarchists in 1887 as a consequence of the Haymarket bombing in Chicago caused many Americans to sympathize with the gibbeted radicals. Youths swathed in bright idealism, men and women rooted in equalitarian democracy, workers trusting in the rectitude of their government—all doubted the guilt of the condemned prisoners and were deeply perturbed by the egregious miscarriage of justice. Many of them for the first time became aware of the state's ruthless arrogation of power, and scores upon scores remained to the end of their lives inimical to government and apprehensive of all forms of authority.

      Emma Goldman was one of these converts. Resentment against the restraints of authority was no new experience for this spirited girl. As far back as she could remember she had hated and feared her father, a quick-tempered and deeply harassed Orthodox Jew who had vented his emotional and financial vexations on his recalcitrant daughter. Unable to get from him the love and praise she craved, she had refused to submit to his strict discipline and had preferred beatings to blind obedience. Consequently she grew up in an atmosphere of repression and acrimony. Since my earliest recollection, she wrote, home had been stifling, my father's presence terrifying. My mother, while less violent with her children, never showed much warmth.

      At the age of thirteen she began to work in a factory in St. Petersburg, and her life became doubly oppressive. She soon learned of the revolutionary movement and sympathized with its agitation against Czarist autocracy. To escape from the tyranny of her father, the irksomeness of the shop, and the repressive measures of the government, she fought with all her stubborn strength for the opportunity to accompany her beloved sister Helene to the United States. Early in 1886 the two girls arrived in Rochester to live with their married sister, who had preceded them to this country.

      Like other penniless immigrants, the seventeen-year-old Emma had no alternative but to follow the common groove to the sweatshop. Paid a weekly wage of two dollars and a half for sixty-three hours of work, she naturally resented the social system which permitted such exploitation. Together with other immigrants she had dreamed of the United States as a haven of liberty and equality. Instead she

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