Today in Labor History September 9, 1739: Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupted near Charleston, South Carolina. 25 colonists and up to 50 African slaves died in the revolt. A literate Congolese former soldier named Cato led the revolt. Today in Labor History September 9, 1828: Leo Tolstoy, Russian […]
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Today in Labor History September 8, 1901: Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist educator, opened the libertarian Escuela Moderna in Barcelona, Spain. It was one of the first schools in Spain to coeducate boys and girls. The curriculum was fully secular and purged of all religious influences. And it sought to abolish all forms of authority. Modern Schools
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Today in Labor History September 7: 1850s-1860s Today in Labor History September 7, 1857: Mormon settlers slaughtered most of the members of a peaceful, emigrant wagon train in the Mountain Meadows massacre. The Mormons dressed as Piutes. They also hired actual Piutes to help in the attack, so the authorities would blame Indians instead of Mormons.
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Today in Labor History September 6, 1620: The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. This led to increasing immigration from Europe and colonization of North America, greatly exacerbating the genocide of Indigenous Peoples that started when Columbus first arrived in 1492. When the Europeans first arrived, historians estimate that over 10 million native peoples
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Today in Labor History1700s Today in Labor History September 5, 1793: The French revolutionary government began their Reign of Terror. September 5, 1794: The Jacobins arrested radical democrat priest Jacques Roux in France. He had preached for a classless society and became a leader of the revolutionary far-left during the French Revolution. Roux argued for
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