Moses Harman

Released

Date of birth:12. 10. 1830

Date of death:30. 01. 1910

Age:79^{† Deceased}

Gender:Male

Race:White

Era:1900s

State:Illinois

Time Imprisoned:

1 Year 11 Months 28 Days

Support

Anarchism

Biography

Moses Harman was a free-thought and individualist-anarchist editor who published Lucifer, the Light-Bearer, a paper devoted to free speech, women's emancipation, and sexual freedom. He was prosecuted repeatedly under the Comstock obscenity laws for what he printed about marriage and the body. In 1905, at the age of seventy-five, he was sentenced to a year of hard labor breaking rocks at the Joliet penitentiary in Illinois.

Cases

Kansas State Penitentiary

Charges: Sending "obscene" material through the mails (Comstock Act).

Sentenced: Apr 30, 1890

Incarcerated: May 4, 1890

Released: Aug 30, 1890

Sentence: Five years and a $300 fine

Convicted: Yes

Institution State: Kansas

Kansas State Penitentiary

Charges: Sending "obscene" material through the mails (Comstock Act).

Sentenced: January 1891

Incarcerated: June 1892

Released: February 1893

Sentence: One year

Convicted: Yes

Institution State: Kansas

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth

Charges: Sending "obscene" material through the mails (Comstock Act).

Sentenced: Jun 2, 1895

Incarcerated: Jun 2, 1895

Released: Apr 4, 1896

Sentence: One year and one day at hard labor

Convicted: Yes

Institution State: Kansas

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth

Charges: Sending "obscene" material through the mails (Comstock Act).

Sentenced: 1905

Incarcerated: Feb 26, 1906

Released: Dec 26, 1906

Sentence: One year at hard labor

Convicted: Yes

Institution State: Kansas

United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth

Charges: Obscenity under the Comstock laws

Incarcerated: Mar 1, 1906

Released: Dec 26, 1906

Sentence: He entered Joliet on March 1, 1906, was transferred to Leavenworth on June 28, 1906, and was released on December 26, 1906 after serving ten months and three days.

Convicted: Yes

Institution State: Kansas

Moses Harman

Biography

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