Record #2338 (edit record; developers only)

Date: 1768

Event:

The Coal Heavers' Case: a group of seven coal-heavers in Shadwell lays seige, with guns, for many hours of the night to the house of a man responsible for reducing their wages. Those who survived the violent attack are sentenced to death under the authority of the Black Act.

Notes: E. P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act (New York: Pantheon, 1975), 254. 

Topics:

*Economics  

Links for Economics:

Bank of England (Bank of England's official website with brief history and other resources.)

 

   

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6/12/2002


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