Posted on 06/28/2024 9:31:51 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1748, three instigators of a riot hanged in an Amsterdam public square, while worse fates befell those who came to see it.
It was only a few days earlier that the Pachtersoproer (English Wikipedia entry | Dutch) had torn apart the homes of nineteen tax collectors and magnates in the capital. These violent protests against inequitable taxation and oligarchical power had actually begun in Friesland and Groningen, the northernmost provinces of the Low Countries, before spreading to Amsterdam.
Marretje Arents (English Wikipedia entry | Dutch), a fishmonger supporting four children while her husband was abroad as a soldier in the East Indies, was seen on that Monday, June 24th, clad in a distinctive red chintz exhorting rioters to wreak revenge on the grandees and helping to ransack at least one house. According to the chronicle (1740-1752) of Abraham Chaim Braatbard, she spat at one agent,....
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Not sure who to root for here. Going after tax collectors is to be commended, but it wouldn’t be such a bad thing to hang plenty of destructive rioters either.
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