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2nd April 2021

2nd April 1863: The Richmond Bread Riot saw hundreds of women in Virginia loot storehouses and shops

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With the cry of ‘bread or blood!’ the women marched to the city’s market district where they broke into government storehouses and nearby businesses.

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