https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/seaweed-the-society-of-masterless-men

alt. link: https://archive.org/details/GreenAnarchy24/page/n65/mode/2up

audio: https://immediatism.com/2020/02/29/e51-the-society-of-masterless-men-by-seaweed/

hard copy: https://www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/books/4750-in-search-of-the-masterless-men-of-newfoundland.html

When I began thinking about outlaws and outlaw history I realized that if outlaw just means one who breaks the law, then I could write about the lives of nearly every citizen. So I define outlaw as one who not only breaks the law, but who survives by breaking the law or essentially lives outside of it. The story of the Society of Masterless Men, which included women and children, began in the 18th-century settlement of Ferryland, in Newfoundland…

An online discussion about Seaweeds’s essay The Society of Masterless Men, hosted by FORGED BOOKS, Manchester’s anarchist reading group.

Conversation will take place on the jitsi platform here: https://8X8.vc/forged/books

We recommend the Chromium browser on desktop: https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ Chrome should also work. We couldn’t get Firefox to work with Jitsi. If you don’t have Chromium or Chrome and don’t want to install a new browser you can use one of Jitsi’s apps here: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/tag/v2.0.2 - you will need to change ‘Server URL’ in settings to https://8X8.vc/ and join the room /forged/books For mobile devices try: https://jitsi.org/downloads/ - you will need to change ‘Server URL’ in settings to https://8X8.vc/ and join the room /forged/books In our test session, the mobile apps kept losing their connection. If you’re really stuck, you could try joining the meeting room /forged/books with the desktop and mobile apps listed here: https://download.8x8.vc/

Continue the conversation after the event here: TBC

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