Leonard Dalton Abbott

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Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878–1953) was an American publicist and radical thinker, born in Liverpool, England. He emigrated to the United States in 1897, involved himself in the socialist movement, and remained an active worker up to 1905. His interests later turned to libertarian education, in which he at once assumed a commanding presence. He was associated in the publication of The Commonwealth, The Free Comrade, and The Modern School, and aided in the founding of the Rand School of Social Science, the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, and the Ferrer School of Stelton, N. J. From 1905, he was one of the editors of Current Opinion. He wrote many tracts and pamphlets, and:

• Ernest Howard Crosby (1907)
• Francisco Ferrer, His Life, Work, and Martyrdom (1910)

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