2: Patrick Henry and Boston Get Pissed about Taxes
History That Doesn't Suck
Prof. Greg Jackson
4.7 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
"Treason!"
This is the story of Virginia's Patrick Henry. He is a dangerous combination: young, idealistic, and persuasive. Patrick has a silver tongue that's going to light up some serious American furry against the Stamp Act. Boston's going to light up with these ideas, too ... but also ... with fire. Actual, real, fire.
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| 0:26.9 | It's late May, either the 29th or the 30th, 1765. |
| 0:37.4 | We're in Williamsburg, Virginia, |
| 0:39.0 | at the colony's gorgeous Red Brick Capitol building, |
| 0:42.0 | where the oldest democratically elected legislative body |
| 0:44.6 | in all of British North America, |
| 0:46.6 | Virginia's House of Burgesses is in session. |
| 0:50.0 | Only 39 of this august bodies over 100 legislators |
| 0:53.4 | or Burgesses, as they're known, are even present, |
| 0:56.4 | but you wouldn't guess that from the growing intensity |
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