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Boston Bread Riot (1713) On this day in 1713, two hundred people rioted on the Boston Common, attacking the ships and warehouses of Andrew Belcher, a wealthy capitalist who had been exporting... (stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co)
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Boston Bread Riot (1713)

Fri May 19, 1713

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On this day in 1713, two hundred people rioted on the Boston Common, attacking the ships and warehouses of Andrew Belcher, a wealthy capitalist who had been exporting grain to the Caribbean during a domestic food shortage. When the lieutenant governor tried to intervene, the crowd shot him.

Belcher had been exporting grain to the Caribbean for years because the profit was greater there. The 1713 riot was one of three bread riots in Boston between 1710 - 1713, when poor and hungry people would raid and attack the stores of grain to be exported.

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[–] Lemming421 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Feels like there’s a good moral in that story…

[–] Blue_Morpho 9 points 4 months ago

The moral learned was that politicians no longer personally intervene when there is a chance of violence. They send in heavily armed police and then issue press statements afterwards from a safe distance.

[–] njm1314 4 points 4 months ago

Capitalists never learn. It's why the guns are necessary.