Battle of Homestead, a violent confrontation laying bare the opposing positions of America's late 19th century laboring & capitalist ruling classes, began 131 years ago today.

For all the lecturing & writing & somber reflections, little space has ever been created to talk about Homestead's women. And only one was ever named in contemporary accounts: Margaret Finch.

I resolved to tell her story:
http://historicaldilettante.blogspot.com/2019/04/bearing-witness-to-beldam-mother-finch.html

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