Basileus Zeno (باسيليوس زينو)
@basileuszeno.bsky.social
Assistant Professor; Political Scientist in the present/ Archaeologist in the past
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Farris was arrested with 5 other Syrian labor leaders and accused of plotting to blow up the American Woolen Company mills. It was revealed later that he'd been framed, and AWC's bosses planted the dynamite themselves to set off white resentment against the Arab community.
Unmentionables | Stanford University Press
As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnational textile trade.
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November 15, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Farris was arrested with 5 other Syrian labor leaders and accused of plotting to blow up the American Woolen Company mills. It was revealed later that he'd been framed, and AWC's bosses planted the dynamite themselves to set off white resentment against the Arab community.