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Hello and welcome to Ben Franklin's World Revisited, a series of classic episodes that bring fresh perspective to our latest episodes and had deeper connections to our understanding of early American history.

And I'm your host, Liz Covert.

Over our last two conversations, we've explored the tea crisis of 1773 and the 7th T-ship.

We've also explored the non-importation, non-exportation movement

of 1773 through 1775. Now to close out our mini-series on T in early America, we're going to

revisit episode 160, The Politics of T. This episode was part of our doing history to the Revolution

series with the Omohandro Institute in 2017.

In this episode, we'll revisit how early Americans went from attending tea parties to holding the Boston Tea Party.

We'll also explore more in-depth information about how tea became a central part of many early American lives.

Now, this episode features three scholars, Jane Merritt, who is now a professor

of merit of history at Old Dominion University, Jennifer L. Anderson, an associate professor of

history at Stony Brook University, and David S. Shields, the Carolina Distinguished Professor of

of English Language and Literature at the University of South Carolina. So feel free to brew yourself

a pot of tea

and take a sip on it while you listen,

because this will be a fun journey

back through the politics of tea.

Jane, thank you so much for joining us.

We're trying to better understand tea in its role in the American Revolution.

And we're curious about how the British trade in tea developed.

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