Boston Tea Party: Igniting a revolution | Trailer

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🗓️ 14 December 2023

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On the evening of 16 December 1773, around a hundred men boarded three ships in Boston harbour, hoisting more than 46 tonnes of tea over the vessels’ rails and into the sea. The destruction of the goods became a pivotal moment on the road to the American Revolutionary War, and is better known to history as the Boston Tea Party. In our new HistoryExtra podcast series, on the 250th anniversary of the rebellion, we’ll be looking at the causes, tensions, and violent origins of the protest, the key players involved in the plan – and why exactly tea was so important to the story. Join experts Benjamin Carp, Sarah Churchwell and Sarah Purcell as we delve into the act of defiance that sparked a revolution. Subscribe to History Extra Plus on Apple Podcasts to listen to the whole series immediately and ad-free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On the 16th of December 1773, around 100 men boarded three ships docked in Boston Harbor
0:06.8	on the coast of colonial Massachusetts and destroyed 46 tons of tea.
0:11.8	The amount of tea that was dumped into the harbor was 46 tons of tea,
0:15.8	when a ton of tea could buy you Paul Revere's house in the north end.
0:20.7	And there was so much tea in Boston Harbor that the water was brown,
0:25.6	and there was tea washing up around Boston for a few days afterwards.
0:29.6	The protest sent shockwaves around Britain's 13 North American colonies.
0:34.6	The crackdown by Parliament in response to the tea's destruction was swift,
0:39.1	brutal, and set the colonies on the road to revolutionary war.
0:44.6	They actually fled before the Tea Party took place outside of the confines of Boston because
0:51.2	they knew that violence was brewing and they were likely to be at the heart of it.
0:55.6	Violence was brewing kind of like tea. I'm Eleanor Evans, the host of History Extra's new podcast series,
1:02.3	Boston Tea Party Igniting a Revolution. And along with leading experts, I'll be delving into the
1:08.1	violent origins, the myths surrounding the protest,
1:11.4	and it's placed in the founding story of the United States of America.
1:15.1	It raises these disagreements again and again of order in obedience on the one hand
1:19.5	and then disorder in defense of certain rights on the other.
1:23.4	And I think that Americans ought to have mixed feelings about the Boston Tea Party, actually.
1:28.7	It's totally symbolic, and it's very, very personal.
1:32.1	It's something that Americans are very proud of.
1:34.1	It's something that just everybody knows.
1:36.2	You know, we breathe it in with the air as we're growing up.
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