Mary Thomas (labor leader)

Mary Thomas
Queen Mary Thomas, depicted wielding a torch and cane knife, in Charles E. Taylor's "Leaflets from the Danish West Indies" (1888)
Born1848
Antigua
Died1905(1905-00-00) (aged 56–57)
Known forled 1878 St. Croix labor riot

Mary Thomas, known as Queen Mary, (ca. 1848–1905) was one of the leaders of the 1878 "Fireburn" labor riot, or uprising, on the island of St. Croix in the Danish West Indies.


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