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From: (Richard Bond)
Subject: Re: Mary Thomas alias "Queen Mary" of St. Croix
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 06:52:07 -0400
References: <410b49ba$0$265$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk>


There is a section about her in Erik Lawaetz's book on St. Croix. The
insurection was mostly composed of landless leaseless wage laborers from
the British islands. There had been a raise given the island's sugarmill
workers and so the field laborers felt their pay should be moved up in
parallel. There was also a curfew and pass travel system that restricted
the wage laborers from exploring St. Croix. This was putting them at a
disadvantage finding new positions away from whoever already had their
contract.

I wrote a longer piece on Queen Mary and her insurrection but I would
catch flack if I cut and pasted it.

Try google searching. "Queen Mary" + "soc.genealogy.west-indies"

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