Anti-Imperialism and Liberty by M. Patrick Cullinane

Dana Estes

Birth/Death: 1840 / 1909

League Membership:             Faneuil Hall Meeting, June 15, 1898
                                               New England Anti-Imperialist League, 1899
                                               American Anti-Imperialist League, 1899
                                               The Anti-Imperialist League, 1904-1921

Role in League: Active Member, Publisher

Occupation: Publisher

Brief Biography

Estes served in the Union Army until he was wounded early at the Battle of Bull Run. He had previously been employed in the book binding business, and when he returned to Boston he immersed himself in publishing. He partnered with Charles Lauriet, where Estes' company became renounced for travel and leisure books as well as art and poetry. After 1898, Lauriet retired and Estes took over the firm. His company was one of the most prolific publishers of anti-imperialist material during the movement. Estes was close with Charles Codman and Gamaliel Bradford and was an early activist and organizer for the League and particularly adept at recruitment.

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Daniel B. Schirmer, Republic or Empire: American Resistance to the Philippine War (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schenkman Publishing, 1972).

M. Patrick Cullinane, Liberty and Anti-Imperialism, May 28, 2009.

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