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Music A listener note, I have COVID. I might sound a little different. It's August 14, 1765 in Boston, Massachusetts. The colony's lieutenant governor Thomas

Hutchinson rushes through a park determined to quell a growing riot.

Earlier today, Thomas heard that residents were gathered to protest a recent tax imposed on the colonies by Britain, known as the Stamp Act.

Now Thomas has come to stop the demonstration before it grows too unwieldy, but he fears he might be too late.

As Thomas turns a corner, he sees

thousands of residents already amassed around a tree with a strange figure dangling from its

branches. As Thomas edges closer, his heart lifts in relief as he realizes the object is an effigy.

But Thomas stops in his tracks as he notices the name of the town's tax agent and his

brother-in-law, Andrew Oliver, scrawled across the stuffed figure. He watches in horror as one man

rips down the effigies and stomps on it before lifting it up to roaring cheers. Then the man leads the

crowd out of the park and into the streets.

Realizing they're headed to Andrew's home, Thomas runs to warn his brother-in-law of the approaching mob.

Soon, Thomas arrives at Andrew's house.

Relief fills him once again as the tax agent opens the door unscathed.

Quickly, Thomas rushes inside and urges Andrew to flee. But even as he speaks, angry shouting

pulls his attention to the scene unfolding outside. Thomas peers out a window and sees the mob

has flooded the street outside. Thomas watches as one man brandishes a knife and decapitates

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