Anger over flourSourced
A meeting about high prices turned into a warehouse attack
In February 1837, New Yorkers gathered to protest rising prices, especially flour. Rumours accused merchants of hoarding supplies to raise prices. A crowd moved to warehouses and rolled flour barrels into the street, looting and destroying stocks. The riot lasted less than a day.
Anger over access to food ended in food being destroyed.
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