Autobiography
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"Autobiography" from Albert Parsons. American radical socialist activist, hanged under doubtful circumstances following a bomb attack on police at the Haymarket Riot (1848-1887).
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This is the autobiography of one of the men hanged for the bombing at Chicago’s Haymarket that took place during the strikes for the eight-hour day that started on May 1, 1886.
He was born in Texas and, after fighting for the Confederacy as a teenager, switched sides and became an activist for the Radical Republicans who defended the rights of the freed people. When Reconstruction ended and Jim Crow was being built, Parsons was driven out of the South and went to Chicago. He came to see the exploitation of workers in the North as a new form of…
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