4: "Boston Harbor A Tea-Pot This Night:" The Boston Tea Party

History That Doesn't Suck

Prof. Greg Jackson

History, Education

4.7 • 6.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

"We have only been making a little salt-water tea."

This is the story of the Boston Tea Party. The East India Company and the needs of the global British Empire are intertwined, and Parliament wants the American colonies to help foot the bill by drinking the company's tea. The East India Company sends its tea to America on seven ships. Four head to Boston. Three will make it. To be clear: the ships make it. The tea won't.

This Second Edition episode is a rewritten, rerecorded, and remastered version of the original episode that aired on October 16, 2017. Head to HTDSpodcast.com to find out how to listen to the original.

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0:00.0	History that doesn't suck is a bi-weekly podcast,
0:02.2	Delivery Nilogit, seriously researched
0:04.2	hard-hitting survey of American history
0:05.7	through entertaining stories.
0:07.4	This is a second edition episode
0:09.4	with new details and an updated sound.
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0:26.6	It's a cold winter's night, December 16th, 1773.
0:37.6	We're at Boston's southeast coast,
0:39.8	and no, I'm not talking about the neighborhood of South-E.
0:43.1	It doesn't exist yet.
0:44.8	Right now, the water's edge reaches
0:46.8	but a few blocks east of the Boston common,
0:49.3	and the suns of liberties beloved Liberty Tree,
0:51.6	and tonight, a massive crowd of up to 2,000 Bostonians
0:55.2	are here tightly packed on the wooden walkways
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