Path to Liberty The TEA ACT: A Trap “WORSE THAN DEATH”
It wasn’t about tea. It was about power – the principle that Parliament could tax the colonies without consent. Even a “trifling sum” meant surrender. The Tea Act was a trap, a test of obedience. And the Revolutionaries chose resistance. On this episode, we break the lie wide open: cheaper tea wasn’t peace – it was submission. And they refused to drink it.
Path to Liberty: May 9, 2025
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Alexander Hamilton – A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress, &c. (15 Dec 1774)
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JL Bell – Why all the Fuss over Tea?
David Ramsay – The History of the American Revolution, vol. 1 (1789)
Benjamin Franklin – Letter to William Franklin (14 Feb 1773)
The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. VI
John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VII (1767)
Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Thomas Cushing (4 June 1773)
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Resolutions Of The Town Of Boston (5 Nov 1773)
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