On this day in 1891, armed Tennessee Coal Miners freed hundreds of prisoners who were being used as strikebreaking convict labor. The raid took place in the context of the "Coal Creek War", a militant labor uprising in the early 1890s.
The Coal Creek War took place primarily, but not exclusively, in Anderson County, Tennessee. This labor conflict ignited in 1891 when coal mine owners in the Coal Creek watershed began to remove and replace their company-employed, private coal miners then on the payroll with convict laborers leased out by the Tennessee state prison system, used in this case as strikebreakers.
Coal workers at the Tennessee Coal Mining Company (TCMC) went on strike on April 1st, 1891, demanding to be paid in cash, not scrip (currency only usable at company stores) and to be allowed to check the weight of their haul (they were paid by weight, but not allowed to check the company's measurement).
Workers initiated a series of raids against the TCMC - on July 14th, armed miners surrounded the stockades where leased convicts were held and sent them by train out of the city. On October 31st, 1891, the miners burned company stockades to the ground and freed hundreds of convicts being held there. On Nov. 2nd, another band attacked stockades in a different location and freed those prisoners as well. From those two events alone, at least 453 convicts were set free.
The strike was forcibly put down by state militia, ending with the arrest of hundreds of miners. All but one were either acquitted or merely fined. Tennessee ended its policy of leasing convict labor, using convicts to work in state-owned mines instead.
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someone good at MTG rate this card i just made up because i thought it would be funny
looking at this already there's probably better ways to remove an enchantment you control than pay 7 whole ass mana
it's 2 am, i work tomorrow, and i'm homebrewing MTG cards let's fuckin go
I know it wasn't intentional but the wording in the first ability is such that it triggers itself. I believe the usual wording these days is "if you would create one or more treasure tokens, you may instead create that many plus one and place a fraud counter on tax fraud "
The new ability bargain would most likely be the method by which you sacrifice the enchantment.
If the card was red green or maybe white it would probably see play in commander but I'm not sure black is that interested in treasures rn