Not only did Professor Carp address the influence that the Boston Tea party held over the role of women and the American Revolution, but also the influence it held over abolitionists. Slavery at the time had been no stranger to America, and Jefferson, who came from a society that knew the realities of slavery, had commented that, “The abolition of slavery is a great object of desire in these colonies, where it was unhappily reproduced…” Though slaveowners, like Jefferson, helped to perpetuate the slave system, he claimed that it was something that had been arbitrarily imposed on the American colonies. Many white slaveowners and Americans were, in fact, uncomfortable with slavery and hoped it would disappear over time. However it was still quite
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Symbolically, it also created waves of influence for the greatest movements and forms of resistance the world has ever seen. As asserted by Professor Benjamin Carp during his oratory about his book, Defiance of the Patriots: the Boston Tea Party and the Making of America, the Tea Party was sparked by four key factors. Britain’s taxation without representation was evidently the colonists’ primary grievance. To further elaborate, the British government imposed taxes on the colonists, despite the colonists not consenting or having an actual representative deliver their views when the taxation decision was made. Such a tyranny over the colonies would not have perpetuated much longer, even if it wasn’t for the Tea Party. Arguably, America, assertive and unsubmissive, was bound to revolutionize one way or another. Beginning approximately in the 1760s, it was made clear that there unjust hand controlling the colonies. For instance, in 1773, it was made publicly known that Thomas Hutchinson, the governor of Massachusetts, had urged the British government for the management of Boston with a firm hand, even if it required, “an abridgment of what was called English liberties.” Thus, the Sons and Daughters of Liberty boycotted the obnoxious commodity and stood their ground. Then there came the day when the Bostonians felt the need to make a statement bold enough that the British wouldn’t ignore, and that day is now known as the spark of the raging fire remembered as the American Revolutionary War. On December 16, 1773 the young rebels united and threw overboard forty-six tons of the obnoxious commodity otherwise known as tea. The British were commercially and pridefully hurt by this action, as they were supposed to be omnipotent and in control of the entirety of its subjects. Therefore, they demonstrated their power through more Acts that only backfired and furthered
Symbolically, it also created waves of influence for the greatest movements and forms of resistance the world has ever seen. As asserted by Professor Benjamin Carp during his oratory about his book, Defiance of the Patriots: the Boston Tea Party and the Making of America, the Tea Party was sparked by four key factors. Britain’s taxation without representation was evidently the colonists’ primary grievance. To further elaborate, the British government imposed taxes on the colonists, despite the colonists not consenting or having an actual representative deliver their views when the taxation decision was made. Such a tyranny over the colonies would not have perpetuated much longer, even if it wasn’t for the Tea Party. Arguably, America, assertive and unsubmissive, was bound to revolutionize one way or another. Beginning approximately in the 1760s, it was made clear that there unjust hand controlling the colonies. For instance, in 1773, it was made publicly known that Thomas Hutchinson, the governor of Massachusetts, had urged the British government for the management of Boston with a firm hand, even if it required, “an abridgment of what was called English liberties.” Thus, the Sons and Daughters of Liberty boycotted the obnoxious commodity and stood their ground. Then there came the day when the Bostonians felt the need to make a statement bold enough that the British wouldn’t ignore, and that day is now known as the spark of the raging fire remembered as the American Revolutionary War. On December 16, 1773 the young rebels united and threw overboard forty-six tons of the obnoxious commodity otherwise known as tea. The British were commercially and pridefully hurt by this action, as they were supposed to be omnipotent and in control of the entirety of its subjects. Therefore, they demonstrated their power through more Acts that only backfired and furthered