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Group: Amhara people
People: Princess Eudocia
Topic: Anti-Rent War
Location: Jena Thuringen Germany

Anti-Rent War

Years: 1839 - 1847

The Anti-Rent War (also known as the Helderberg War) is a tenants' revolt in upstate New York during the early 19th century, beginning with the death of Stephen Van Rensselaer III in 1839.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)