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3. The Tea in Boston Harbour
Sathnam Sanghera and William Dalrymple discuss how imperial tea played a role in shaping Britain鈥檚 relationship with two superpowers.
The crates dumped in the harbour at the Boston Tea Party in 1773 contained East India Company tea. The historian William Dalrymple tells Sathnam Sanghera that taxation wasn鈥檛 the only issue motivating Boston鈥檚 revolutionaries. Fear and suspicion of the EIC and its tea were a factor as well.
And soon, tea would forever change British relations with China too.
Produced by Paul Martin for 大象传媒 Audio Wales
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Thu 27 Jun 2024
21:45
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