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| | Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, and Individualist Anarchism, Part One |
 | | On April 17, 1854, Tucker was born in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts.(9) Coming from both a Quaker and a radical Unitarian background, Tucker grew up in an atmosphere of dissent and free inquiry, and attended the Friends Academy in New Bedford, a nearby seaport. |
 | | In Boston, Tucker became politically involved with the 1872 presidential campaign of Horace Greeley, and made the acquaintance of the veteran individualist anarchists Josiah Warren and William B. Greene through attending a convention of the New England Labor Reform League in Boston, a veritable hotbed of individualists. |
 | | Converted to egoism, Tucker continued to believe in what he called 'society by contract', but he came to view rights as by-products of contracts between individuals, not as entities existing on their own. |
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