Editing Stephen Pearl Andrews (section)

== Life ==

Andrews was born on March 22, 1812 in Templeton, Massachusetts.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> His father, Elisha Andrews, was a Baptist clergyman and revivalist.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> He graduated from the Classics department at Amherst College.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=Andrews, Stephen Pearl |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/andrews-stephen-pearl |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}</ref> He studied law and was admitted to the state bar in 1833.<ref name=":2" /> He moved to New Orleans where he became a wealthy lawyer and slaveowner.<ref name=":0" /> He was converted by abolitionism and became an abolitionist leader.<ref name=":0" />

He moved to Houston, Texas in 1839.<ref name=":2" /> He was a prominent advocate for abolitionism in the Republic of Texas and an active member of the [[Liberty Party (United States, 1840)|Liberty Party]].<ref name=":0" /> Andrews was mobbed for his abolitionist rhetoric in Texas, prompting him to leave the state in 1843 for England.<ref name=":2" /> In England, he sought funds to buy slaves in the United States in order to free them.<ref name=":1" />

By the end of the 1840s, Andrews began to focus his energies on utopian communities. Fellow [[Individualist anarchism|individualist anarchist]] [[Josiah Warren]] was responsible for Andrew's conversion to radical individualism and in 1851 they established [[Modern Times (community)|Modern Times]] in [[Brentwood, New York#History|Brentwood, New York]]. He was elected an Associate Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1846.<ref name="AAAS">{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=April 18, 2011}}</ref> In 1857, Andrews established the Unitary Homes on East 14 St. and Stuyvesant St. in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1859/07/07/issue.html|title=TimesMachine: Thursday July 7, 1859 - NYTimes.com|via=TimesMachine}}</ref>

Andrews was a supporter of the [[Women's suffrage|woman suffrage movement]].<ref name=":2" />