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The Fireburn
1878
Frederiksted, Saint Croix, US Virgin Islands
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Emancipation in 1848 left a labour law that bound workers to annual contracts at fixed wages. Thirty years later they burned Frederiksted and about fifty plantations. Four women led it and are still called the Queens. Mary Thomas was sentenced to hard labour in Copenhagen.
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