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🏴🇬🇧 In 1839 the farmers of West Wales were being crushed alive.
So they put on dresses. And declared war.
Their name was Rebecca. 🪓
West Wales. 1839. Rent to the landlord. Tithes to the English Church. And on every road, a tollgate. You couldn't move without paying.
On the night of 13 May 1839 a crowd appeared at the Efailwen tollgate in Pembrokeshire.
Every single one of them was dressed as a woman. Long skirts. Bonnets. Shawls. Work boots visible beneath the hems.
Their leader stood at the front. They called her Rebecca.
The name came from the Bible. Genesis 24:60. "Let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them."
They destroyed the gate.
The trust rebuilt it. Rebecca came back. They destroyed it again.
The trust rebuilt it a second time. Rebecca destroyed it a third time.
The trust gave up. 🏴
By 1843 the raids had spread across all of west Wales. Two hundred and fifty tollhouses destroyed. Two thousand people marched on the Carmarthen workhouse and tried to burn it down.
Nobody knew who Rebecca was. That was the point.
Everyone was Rebecca.
One person died. Sarah Williams. Seventy-five years old. The keeper of the Hendy tollgate, Carmarthenshire.
On the night of September 9th 1843 Rebecca came for her gate. She was ordered to leave. She refused. They set fire to the tollhouse.
She walked to her neighbour's door.
She said: "Dear, dear." And fell down dead.
Those who were caught were transported to Tasmania. Never to return. 🏴
In 1844, Parliament passed the South Wales Turnpike Trusts Act. The hated toll on lime was halved. The trusts were brought to heel.
Two hundred and fifty gates destroyed. One act of Parliament.
The farmers won.
Nobody knows who Rebecca was. Nobody was ever identified as the leader.
Everyone was Rebecca.
Did they teach you their story? 🏴🇬🇧
Nobody keeps these stories alive.
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