Patriotic mobs and tea-dumping at ports returned to Boston on Saturday as the city marked the 250th anniversary of the revolutionary protest that preceded American independence.
The commemoration of the Boston Tea Party included scheduled reenactments of tea leaf throwing in the city’s harbor and community gatherings that preceded the defiant act of December 16, 1773, although this time, the symbolic protest was aided by floodlights and microphones.
City officials expected thousands of visitors for the celebration.
The crowds who gathered to watch the reenactment quickly joined in shouting “Hurrah!” along with costumed actors as boxes of tea were thrown into the harbour.
Later, they loudly booed an actor who read King George III’s order to close the bay, and applauded as narrators detailed the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Fireworks explode over two ships, the Beaver (left) and the Eleanor, during Saturday’s celebrations. CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock An actor plays Samuel Savagae during the reenactment of the “People’s Body Meeting” inside the Old South Meeting House during the 250th anniversary celebration of the Boston Tea Party on December 16. 2023. CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock An actor utters a phrase like founding father John Hancock during the Saturday celebration. CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The tea for the recreation was supplied by East India Co., the same British company that was at the center of the raucous dispute.
During the historic event, protesting “taxation without representation,” members of the Sons of Liberty and others boarded East India Co. ships and dumped their valuable loot (some 92,000 pounds of tea with a current value of nearly $2 million). dollars) in the murky waters of Boston Harbor. .
Britain responded with military rule and other sanctions on Massachusetts, stoking American opposition to colonial rule.
Visitors to the Boston Tea Party Museum throw replica tea containers into Boston Harbor from one of the replica ships on Dec. 11, 2017. AP Members of the Fife and Drum Corps play the flute as they march down the street toward the dock on Saturday, December 16. CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Drummers walk down the street as part of the march to the water to recreate the historic tea throwing. CJ GUNTHER/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The Boston Tea Party is considered a pivotal event that led to the American Revolutionary War.
“It is a reminder to all of us, not just here in the United States but around the world, that democracy is in action: doing the right thing, no matter the odds, for our friends, our families, our homes, our future, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said at a press conference Friday ahead of the anniversary.
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