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Digger

Member of an English 17th-century radical sect that attempted to seize and share out common land. The Diggers became prominent in April 1649 when, headed by Gerrard Winstanley, they set up communal colonies near Cobham, Surrey, and elsewhere. The Diggers wanted to return to what they claimed was a ‘golden age’ before the Norman Conquest, when they believed that all land was held in common and its fruits were shared fairly between the people, and when men and women were equal. They did not allow private property or possessions; it is sometimes claimed that they were the first communist society. The Diggers' colonies were attacked by mobs and, being pacifists, they made no resistance. The support they attracted alarmed the government and they were dispersed in 1650. Their ideas influenced the early Quakers (called the Society of Friends).



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For the most odious weeks I had been a licensed digger on Black Hill Flats; and I had actually failed to make running expenses.
It means grasshopper soup, the favorite dish of the Digger tribe,--and of the Pi-utes as well.
Ere entering upon the subject of Fossil Whales, I present my credentials as a geologist, by stating that in my miscellaneous time i have been a stone-mason, and also a great digger of ditches, canals, and wells, wine-vaults, cellars, and cisterns of all sorts.
 
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