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1269: The Boston Tea Party

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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December 16, 1773. Frustrated at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation”, American colonists dump 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. This episode originally aired in 2021.

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It's August 14th, 1765, on a warm summer evening in Boston, Massachusetts.

1:13.6

Andrew Oliver, a stamp man, slams his window shut. Outside his home, an angry mob is coming for him.

1:22.6

Andrew was recently hired to enforce the Stamp Act, a British law that imposes new taxes

1:28.5

on the American colonies. But many of the colonists aren't happy about this new levy,

1:33.4

imposed by a government thousands of miles away, and their justice disgruntled with Andrew

1:38.4

for enforcing the law. Earlier this morning, his fellow colonists hung an effigy from an elm tree in town,

1:46.1

pinned to its chest were the initials A-O for Andrew Oliver.

1:50.3

The sheriff urged Andrew to run and hide,

1:53.2

and as he listens to the mob gathering on his front lawn,

1:56.3

he wishes he would have listened.

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