Equality Colony
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Equality Colony was a United States socialist colony founded in Skagit County, Washington by the socialist Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth in 1897. It was meant to serve as a model that wo
Logo of the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth, the entity behind Equality Colony in Washington state
The Equality Colony, circa 1900
Nameplate of Industrial Freedom, newspaper of the Equality Colony published at Edison, Washington from 1898 through 1902
Logo of Equality Colony, 1898
Edward Bellamy
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Edward Bellamy was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of nu
Equality Colony
…meant to serve as a model that would lead to the conversion of the rest of Washington, and later the entire continent, to socialism. It survived as an Edward Bellamy-inspired intentional community until it succumbed to internal divisions in 1907. The origins of the Equality Colony lay in a grand strategic plan of…
Edward Bellamy, circa 1889
Looking Backward