Electioneering and Activism at the Turn of the Century and the Politics of Disablement: The Legacy of E.T. Kingsley (1856-1929)
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socialism, amputee, Canada
Abstract
The lost career of Eugene T. Kingsley (1856-1929), an American-Canadian socialist who ran for the House of Representatives, the Canadian House of Commons and the British Columbia Legislature, has much to teach disability studies scholars. A double amputee who walked with a cane and artificial limbs, Kingsley was radicalized after an industrial accident in California and went on to become a central leader of the Socialist Party of Canada. In this article, I document his career and reflect on his legacy.
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Bratt, C. (1995-1996). Introduction. Kentucky Law Journal, 84, 715-720.
Buhle, P. (1988). C.L.R. James: The artist as revolutionary. London: Verso.
Campbell, P. (1999). Canadian Marxists and the search for a third way. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Coleman, S. (1990). Daniel De Leon. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
First Women’s Rights Convention. (1995-1996). Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments. Kentucky Law Journal, 84, 713-714. (Original Work published 1848)
Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
If necessary let them use clubs. (1908, October 1). The Vancouver [BC] Daily Province, p. 2.
Johnson, R. A. (1975). No compromise—No political trading: The Marxian socialist tradition in British Columbia. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of British Columbia, Canada.
JoinCalifornia. (2005-2011a). Election history for the state of California: November 3, 1896. Retrieved from http://www.joincalifornia.com/election/1896-11-03
JoinCalifornia. (2005-2011b). Election history for the state of California: November 8, 1898. Retrieved from http://www.joincalifornia.com/election/1898-11-08
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Kingsley, E. T. (1910, May 6). [Unpublished letter to James Hawthornthwaite]. Hawthornthwaite Archives, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
Kingsley, E. T. (1916). The genesis and evolution of slavery: Showing how the chattel slaves of pagan times have been transformed into the capitalist property of to-day. Vancouver, BC: Author.
Kingsley, E. T. (1919, January 16). Control of state through political action must be secured by forces of united labor if certain victory is to be achieved. The Labor Star, pp. 1-2.
Labor Council. (1895, November 16). San Francisco Call, p. 16. Retrieved from Chronicling America database. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1895-11-16/ed-1/seq-16/
Longmore, P., & Umansky, L. (Eds.). (2001). The new disability history: American perspectives. New York: New York University Press.
McCormack, A. R. (1977). Reformers, rebels and revolutionaries: The western Canadian radical tradition 1899-1919. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
McDonald, R. A. J. (1996). Making Vancouver: Class, status and social boundaries, 1863-1913. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
McKay, I. (2008). Reasoning otherwise: Leftists and the people’s enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920. Toronto: Between the Lines.
Mihm, S. (2002). “A limb which shall be presentable in polite society”: Prosthetic technologies in the nineteenth century. In K. Ott, D. Serlin, & S. Mihm (Eds.), Artificial parts, practical lives: Modern histories of prosthetics (pp. 282-299). New York: New York University Press.
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Newton, J. (1995). The feminist challenge to the Canadian left, 1900-1918. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Oliver, M. (1990). The politics of disablement. London: MacMillan.
Ormsby, M. (1958.) British Columbia: A history. Vancouver: MacMillan.
Palmer, B. D. (2000). Cultures of darkness: Night travels in the histories of transgression. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Parnaby, A., Kealey, G., & Niergarth, A. (2009). “High-handed, impolite and empire-breaking actions”: Radicalism, anti-imperialism and political policing in Canada, 1860-1914. In B. Wright & S. Binnie (Eds.), Canadian state trials volume III: Political trials and security measures, 1840-1914 (pp. 483-515). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Pritchard, B. (1969, November 17). Interview by David Millar Fonds. [Audiotape]. National Library of Canada.
Rose, S. F. (2005). “Crippled” hands: Disability in labour and working-class history. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History in the Americas, 2.1, 27-54.
Russell, M., & Malhotra, R. (2001). Disability and capitalism. In L. Panitch & C. Leys (Eds.), Socialist register 2002: A world of contradictions (pp. 211-228). Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Fernwood.
Schwantes, C. (1979). Radical heritage: Labor, socialism and reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885-1917. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre.
Seager, A. (2000). Hawthornthwaite, James Hurst. In J. English & R. Belanger (Eds.), Dictionary of Canadian biography online: Volume XV. Retrieved from http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=8187&interval=25&&PHPSESSID=hv09te5ampo5mletvdef7bvrt2
Slavishak, E. (2003). Artificial limbs and industrial workers’ bodies in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. Journal of Social History, 37.2, 365-388.
Socialist Labor Party. (1896, April 19). San Francisco Call, p. 32. Chronicling America Database. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1896-04-19/ed-1/seq-32/
Stone, D. (1984). The disabled state. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Williams-Searle, J. (2001). Cold charity: Manhood, brotherhood, and the transformation of disability, 1870-1900. In P. Longmore & L. Umansky (Eds.), The new disability history: American perspectives (pp. 157-186). New York University Press.
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Ravi Malhotra, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa
Ravi Malhotra is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa in Canada. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He has participated in the Society for Disability Studies since 1996.