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Do High Grain Prices Provide the Seed of Revolutions?

Do High Grain Prices Provide the Seed of Revolutions?
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The Bread Riot rocked Richmond and changed women s history

The Bread Riot of 1863 was an act that some historians believe lit an early fuse in the movement toward women’s empowerment in America.

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Newspapers in Virginia during the Civil War, Confederate – Encyclopedia Virginia

Newspapers in Virginia during the Civil War, Confederate – Encyclopedia Virginia
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In Roger Lowenstein’s latest book, Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War, Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase, the 37th Congress, and banker Jay Cooke are the stars leading the drama that ends with Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox. Abraham Lincoln, The Great Emancipator, looms large but plays a supporting role.

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Richmond Bread Riot | American history [1863]

Richmond Bread Riot, also called Richmond Women’s Bread Riot, riot in Richmond, Virginia, on April 2, 1863, that was spawned by food deprivation during the American Civil War. The Richmond Bread Riot was the largest civil disturbance in the Confederacy during the war. During the Civil War, the population of Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, had more than tripled to over 100,000 people as thousands of civilians and Confederate soldiers sought refuge there. The Union blockade of Confederate ports prevented food from being imported from other countries, and much of the food that might have fed the growing civilian

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