Jumat, 07 Juli 2017

Women on the Warpath

 “Bread or blood!” The cry rang out across the South in the starving spring of 1863, when a wave of violent food riots, all of them led by women, swept the Confederacy from Mobile to Richmond. The riots were spectacular, and they were numerous. Mobs of women numbering from a dozen to 300 or more, …

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