348. The Boston Tea Party (Part 2)
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🗓️ 6 July 2023
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“Last night three cargos of tea were emptied into the sea. This morning a man of war sails. This is the most magnificent movement of all. There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this last effort of the patriots, that I greatly admire.”
The Boston Tea Party occurs amid the growing disagreements between the British parliament and the people of colonial America, as New Englanders, and Bostonians in particular, fight British attempts to regulate imperial trade. In the second episode of this series, Tom, Dominic and Professor Adam Smith examine the Tea Act and how it accelerated the American Revolution. They also chart George Washington’s rise to commander-in-chief of the American patriot forces, and ask to what extent slavery was an issue in the war.
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| 0:30.8 | Larsonoy, three cargoes of tea were emptied into the sea. This morning a man of war sales. |
| 0:37.4 | This is the most magnificent movement of all. There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity |
| 0:44.5 | in this last effort of the patriots that I greatly admire. The people should never rise |
| 0:51.1 | without doing something to be remembered, something notable and streaking. |
| 0:56.3 | This destruction of the tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible. |
| 1:05.0 | And it must have so important consequences and so lasting that I can't but consider it as an |
| 1:11.7 | epoch in history. So that Dominic was John Adams and we agreed in the previous episode that we've |
| 1:20.4 | been doing on the American War of Independence. That's exactly how Americans spoke. They spoke |
| 1:25.1 | like people from Devon and he was writing on the 16th of December 1773 about a tea-related |
| 1:32.0 | Anglo-American in Broilio. So you may remember that a few months ago there was great outrage in |
| 1:37.8 | Britain because an American YouTuber suggested making tea by boiling the water in a microwave. |
| 1:45.0 | Which was shocking and shows that really, I mean Americans are still up to their tea-related |
| 1:52.7 | tea-related atrocities. But this is the kind of the primal Anglo-American tea-related |
| 1:59.3 | bust up, isn't it? The Bocent Tea Party. Although it didn't actually get that name for 50 years |
| 2:04.6 | until after the actual event. Absolutely right Tom. Hello everybody, welcome back. |
| 2:10.0 | And just to be absolutely clear, we've done quite a lot of linguistic research haven't we Tom? |
| 2:13.9 | So that absolutely is how the founding fathers sounded. And we have an absolute top historian, |
| 2:21.1 | Oxford Professor Adam Smith, an expert on American history. And Adam, that's right, Tom's accent |
| 2:27.8 | was pretty much syllable perfect. Is that correct? I think Tom of anything, we're just speaking |
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