Back in the days of ships and sails, there were people who worked as “boatmen” or “longshoremen,” making their living rowing people to and from ships. They were known for being… a bit unscrupulous. Often, halfway to the ship, the boatmen would stop and refuse to keep going unless they got paid more. And what could you do? You were on a rowboat far from shore, and far from ship. Well one smart British diplomat figured out how to avoid paying up…
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Between 1301 and 1325, during the Great Famine when crops failed across Europe, the average...
Between 1301 and 1325, during the Great Famine when crops failed across Europe, the average lifespan in England was 29.84 years. Between 1348 and 1375 during the Black Plague, it dropped to 17.33 years.
Paperbacks For America!
The Council on Books in Wartime was created in 1942 by a group of publishing executives. The Council distributed cheap paperbacks to American soldiers fighting across the world, to boost morale. By 1947 they had printed 123 million copies of 1,322 titles. It cost around 8 million dollars. The program was extremely successful – soldiers in the field often tore their book at the halfway mark, so another soldier could start reading it too.
January 7th 1923: Rosewood massacre endsOn this day in 1923,...
January 7th 1923: Rosewood massacre ends
On this day in 1923, the Rosewood massacre ended in the Florida town after raging for a week. The violence began on January 1st, the day after a Ku Klux Klan rally was held in the area. It started when a white mob descended on the predominantly black town in response to a rumour that a black Rosewood man had sexually assaulted a white woman. The group of over 400 whites attacked African-Americans who they believed were involved, torturing people for information and targetting a family home. They then rampaged throughout the town burning buildings to the ground, including houses and churches. The black residents were forced to hide in the nearby swamps until they were evacuated to other towns, leaving Rosewood completely deserted in the wake of the violence. The carnage ended on January 7th when the mob burned the last structures and there were no black residents in Rosewood remaining. The final death toll was officially six blacks and two whites killed, but according to witnesses closer to thirty African-Americans died. A white jury decided there was insufficient evidence and none of those involved were ever charged for their role in what was erroneously portrayed as a ‘race riot’. In 1994, almost seventy years after the event, the Florida legislature passed a bill that gave each of the nine remaining survivors of the massacre $150,000 in compensation. While it is not enough to provide justice for the Rosewood victims and survivors, the 1994 law ended decades of refusal to come to terms with the horrors committed at Rosewood.
“It has been a struggle telling this story over the years, because a lot of people don’t want to hear about this kind of history … It’s a sad story, but it’s one I think everyone needs to hear”
- Lizzie Jenkins, descendant of a Rosewood survivor
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