Boston shoemaker‚ who at the age of twenty-eight witnessed four of his closest friends shot to death by The British red coats; he also participated in many of the key events of the Revolutionary crisis.1 Hewes recollections of the events that took place were passed along in the monograph The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution by Alfred F. Young. His recollections of the dumping of the tea into the harbor lead the reemergence of how significant the dumping of the tea was
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rejected as too short‚ even after he built up his shoes. At age twenty-one Hewes opened a small shop on Griffin ’s Wharf‚ and in 1768 he wed Sally Sumner‚ a teenage laundress. Their marriage lasted sixty years‚ but they never escaped poverty. A lone shoemaker could not compete with early manufacturing centers like Lynn‚ Massachusetts‚ whose artisans in 1767 produced 40‚000 pairs of shoes. Hewes therefore occasionally worked on fishing boats off Newfoundland‚ and in 1770 was jailed for a £7 debt. Hewes
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3 September 2014 The Shoemaker and the Tea Party In the colonies during the Revolutionary Era‚ “where one ended up in life depended very much on where one started out”(Young 15). George Robert Twelves Hewes proved this wrong. His experiences growing up and being involved in this era changed the way he felt about himself and the humble social class he was a part of. These experiences led him to not defer his social betters. “We have evidence to take stock of Hewe’s role in three major events of
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The Shoemaker and the Tea Party The nickname “The Boston Tea Party” that refers to the rebellious actions of dumping tea into Boston harbor was actually given in a later time period. The original name that colonist described it as was “The Destruction of the Tea”.1An important man named George Robert Twelves Hewes gives a personal recollection of his participation during the prerevolutionary war. Hewes was renounced a hero in his later years towards his hundredth birthday. He was the last know
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Article Review: The Shoemaker and the Revolution Author: Alfred F. Young Article Title: “The Shoemaker and the Revolution I – Introduction This article was written to illustrate the common citizen of the colonies and their struggles‚ both good and bad‚ through the revolution. By writing “The Shoemaker and the Revolution” Alfred F. Young shows the mass civilian involvement that acted as a catalyst for the anti-British sentiment that swept the nation‚ and specifically Boston. Young uses George Hewes
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independence came about slowly‚ it is inaccurate to say that the colonists were "reluctant" in their efforts. George Robert Twelves Hewes is a perfect example of a colonist who was "excited with an inextinguishable desire to aid in chastising [the British]"(Young 55). The colonists were political activists waiting to happen. Politics had been relatively quite in the New World since its boom. In the Puritan societies‚ citizens took turns serving political offices; it was part of their duty to the community
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Scholarly writing on the Tea Party seem to have many key unresolved questions: is the Tea Party the latest episode in the larger story of American conservatism and the metamorphosis of the Republican Party? If not‚ then what are the true origins? Is it an economic movement or a manifestation of white racism and dissension? Has the conservative establishment orchestrated the Tea Party‚ or is the Tea Party truly a grassroots movement? In Change They Can’t Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics
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The Two Faces of the Tea Party The Tea Party movement of the late 18th century has been reinvented by a different group of political figures in today´s society. Both movements have similar intentions but are protesting and campaigning for very different reasons. This paper will look at today´s Tea Party and compare the protesters and their reasons for protesting with those of the Boston Tea Party all those years ago. The first movement called ´´The Boston Tea Party´´ began in 1773. It represented
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Williamson. 2012. The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Goneya‚ Don. 2013. “Amid Declining Popularity‚ The Tea Party Prepares to Fight”. Retrieved December 24‚ 2013. (http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/12/24/256859872/amid-declining-popularity-the-tea-party-prepares-to-fight) In The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism‚ Vanessa Williamson and Theda Skocpol take an in-depth look high contentious Tea Party groups Williamson
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loss for the Republican Party‚ the Tea Party emerged seen as the savior the GOP needed‚ and in their eyes‚ the saviors of the collapsing country. The grassroots movement mainly composed of conservative‚ white middle-class citizens gained traction and exposure through Republican business elites‚ national advocates and funders‚ and media exposure‚ particularly conservative news sources with Fox News leading the way. With these outside factors and diffusion methods‚ Tea Party ideals quickly spread and
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