BOSTON – Patriotic mobs and harbor tea-dumping returned to Boston on Saturday as the town marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protest that preceded America’s independence.
The commemoration of the Boston Tea Party incorporated scheduled reenactments of the throwing of tea leaves into the town’s harbor and neighborhood conferences that preceded the defiant act on Dec. 16, 1773. City officers have been anticipating 1000’s of guests for the birthday celebration.
Tea for the reenactment used to be being equipped via the East India Co., the identical British corporate that used to be at the middle of the raucous dispute.
Protesting “taxation without representation,” participants of the Sons of Liberty and others boarded East India Co. ships and dumped their treasured haul — some 92,000 kilos of tea value just about $2 million these days — into the murky waters of Boston Harbor.
The British would reply with army rule and different sanctions on Massachusetts, stoking American opposition to colonial rule.
The Tea Party is regarded as a pivotal match main the Revolutionary War.
“It’s a reminder for all of us, not just here in the United States but all over the world, that democracy is in action: Doing what’s right, no matter the odds, for our friends, our families, our homes, our future,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu mentioned at a news convention Friday previewing the anniversary.