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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 add deeper connections to our understanding

of early American history.

And I'm your host, Liz Covert.

The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773.

In next week's episode, Episode 401, we'll be speaking with James Fichter, the author of

T, Consumption, Politics and Revolution, 1773 to 1776, about the tea crisis of 1773, which precipitated

the Boston Tea Party. Now, to help expand on James's work and our conversation with him,

our next two episodes in the Ben Franklin's World Revisited series will offer perspectives

in two different areas of the tea crisis, the tea ships that carried English East India

Company tea to Great Britain's North American colonies, and the politics of tea consumption.

In this episode, we'll revisit episode 112 with Marybeth

Norton, a professor of History Emerita at Cornell University. In 2016, Marybeth published an article

called The Seventh Tea Ship in the William and Mary Quarterly, and this article offered a lot

of new details about the tea crisiscrisis of 1773.

So to get us ready for our conversation with James Fichter next week in episode 401,

let's revisit our 2016 conversation with Mary Beth Norton. Music Joining us is the Mary Donlan Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University.

She's the president-elect of the American Historical Association, an award-winning historian, and the author of five books.

Today, she joins us to discuss the T-Crisis of 1773 and the story of the seventh T-ship,

which she recently documented in an article in the October 2016 edition of the William and Mary Quarterly.

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