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Americans imagined tea as central to their revolution. After years of colonial boycotts against the commodity, the Sons of Liberty kindled the fire of independence when they dumped tea in the Boston harbor in 1773. To reject tea as a consumer item and symbol of taxation without representation was to reject Great Britain as master of the American economy and government.

Title : The Trouble with Tea (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)
Author : Jane T. Merritt
Language : en
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