01x01 - The Boston Tea Party

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I still I

know the truth will rise and

fall that's just

toles a word now to the

wise the world was made he St a

surprise I'm looking at life my own eyes

I'm searching for a hero don't idiz

feeling the pain as

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innocent I take my heart battle that

freed get my Independence declare it on

the line the for your freedom and

patriotic voes sing white blue never

give up you represent America anding for

a glider day I listen to my heart and I

oy how can I see it any other way I'm

looking at

my

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my here are some exciting scenes from

today's episode of Liberty's Kids it's

time for us to band together it's time

for us to become Patriots and Patriots

are men of action are you with me

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a

dearest mother I can hardly believe it's

been a fortnite since I B you all

farewell I miss you terribly yet my

heart is also filled with delicious

anticipation of the new life which

awaits father in me in the colonies I

look forward to settling in Dr

Franklin's home in Philadelphia and long

to see father again when he returns from

the wilderness

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I'm proud to have a brave Explorer as my

father I wear his locket

always we all be reunited on the

wonderful land he is sure to

discover I shall be true to my word and

write every day your loving daughter

Sarah

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Moses Moses help Moses

hurry not again James great so Moses

help me this is my last clean

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shirt

wa much

obliged Dr Franklin has warned you about

standing too close to the Press while

I'm working on it look at yourself

fantastic when someone wants to know

what's on my shirt I can sell them a

newspaper we're paid to print the paper

not wear it I don't just print the paper

I'm a journalist you're an apprentice

journalist true but someday I'm going to

get the big story then Dr Franklin will

make me a full-fledged

journalist James Moses a

letter it's from Dr Franklin in London

give me that HRI it's addressed to Moses

you look like

James and you look like someone whose

dessert I'm going to eat tonight Lads

drop everything Sarah Phillips isn't

coming to Philadelphia good I never

understood why she had to stay here

anyway fetch your coats we're going to

meet her at the ship I thought you just

said she isn't coming to Philadelphia

she's not Dr Franklin says Miss Phillips

couldn't make passage on the do she's

aboard the Dartmouth and the Dartmouth

is heading for Boston Boston that's in

Massachusetts Bay Colony and there's

been trouble up there lately we have to

hurry she's all alone come on

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I hope I'm not putting you out of your

way Dr Franklin not at all Lady Phillips

I have an appointment just down the

street besides Life's A wilderness

without friends last night I had a

terrible dream my Sarah was in danger

danger in

Philadelphia let me put your mind at

ease it's a fine City the second largest

in the Empire she'll feel very much at

home lady Phillips that is a relief I

worry about her Ben with major Phillips

off scouting new lands in the Ohio

territory Sarah will be all alone but

she won't be alone she'll be in fine

company with my associates Moses James

and HR Sarah couldn't be safer if she

were still cradled in your own

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arms gentlemen of Boston

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the hour has

arrived please please gentlemen you know

me as Sam Adams neighbor and friend hear

me now Parliament continues to treat us

with ill

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will first the Sugar Act raised our

taxes did we have a say the answer is

now he then the horrid Stamp Act nearly

drove us to ruin and who can forget our

brothers who lost their lives in the

Boston

m*ssacre and now Governor Hutchinson

insists on collecting parliament's taaax

but did we have a vote no

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so this is Boston it's smaller than I

thought oh my joints are aching from

these rotten roads the axle is bent

it'll have to be repaired before we head

back the ride home will be smoother good

otherwise I'd rather walk home how are

we going to find Miss Phillips you don't

even know what she looks like she sailed

on the dart that's a good place to start

the Dartmouth let's burn

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it it's time for us to band together as

Sons of

Liberty it's time for us to become

Patriots and Patriots are men of action

are you with

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me let's go to the

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har can you not go over

every hey Moses

sh Indians James Moses moak

Indians a bohawk with yellow hair

there's a story here let's see where

they lead

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us they're headed for the Dartmouth

we've got to find Miss Phillips fast

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you get Miss Phillips I'm going to get

this

story just the tea men remember we're

not to damage anything else we're just

after the tea

why are you destroying the tea we're

protesting unfair taxation Parliament

raised the tax over our objections maybe

next time they'll

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listen no tax without

representation do you know what that

means nope I heard the other saying it

we've stumbled in to the story of a

lifetime I'm going below deck to see

what's happening stay out of

trouble take that

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Parliament Miss Phillips Sarah Phillips

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Sarah take that

what hit

me you'll never take me alive take you

where wherever Indians take people I'm

not no Indian none of us are you're not

an Indian who taught you grammar who

taught you to act people in the head my

apologies I thought you were here to

kidnap me

kidnap I'm a journalist for the

Pennsylvania Gazette now what do you

have to say about the tax protest is

that what this is about disgraceful the

tea is private property this is so

uncivilized we're not to damage anything

else we're just after the

team if you are any kind of Englishman

you've dropped that pencil and put a

stop to it so you think it's okay to

impose taxes on the colonies even though

the colonies don't have a vote in

Parliament I think loyal subjects of the

king should obey the laws of their

country and you can quote me on that

Mr what is your name Hiller James Hiller

and who would I be quoting whom may I be

quoting if you're going to write for a

newspaper you really should treat words

with more care just tell me your name

will you I have work to do Phillips Miss

Sarah Phillips of London England s a r a

h p hii Sarah Phillips you're Sarah

Phillips

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I can't believe you're Sarah Phillips I

am and I'll thank you to stop shouting

Mr Hiller I've had a very rude welcome

to America and you're not making things

any better we've been looking for you

have you and why is that Benjamin

Franklin sent us Dr Franklin sent you

now who's yelling Red Coats

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Abandoned Ship Abandoned

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Ship HRI we have to get out of here

where is James look it is not a

mistake James come on the red coats are

on their way come on unhand

me Miss Phillips I presume thank

goodness we found you if we're caught by

those soldiers we'll be thrown in jail

which in my opinion is exactly where

traitors

belong Sorry Miss Phillips but I can't

print my story from jail let me

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go I said let me go I love to but Dr

Franklin told us to take care of you

James look out

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hold that's an

order I'll get you for

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this you rat scallions men stop them

immediately I want them

now

who sh is everyone okay that was fun

what a story

this is headline

news lower your voices we're not out of

the woods yet H are you crazy do you

want the British to catch us I am

British we're all British right now

those soldiers think we're

criminals criminals what did we do wrong

we were in the wrong place at the wrong

time the wagon's over there let's go

keep down the red coat will recognize

you three but I'll just be another

faceless servant even if you don't like

the laws you can't just ignore them that

will lead to chaos but what if the law

is unjust Parliament would never pass an

unjust law but they

have I interviewed the men tonight the

colonies must pay taxes to the king but

we have no voice in Parliament does that

sound fair to you I don't know what to

think I only know Ben Franklin would

hardly approve of what went on tonight

then you don't know Ben Franklin quick

get down the Constable be still or it's

jail for us

all whoa good evening Constable fine

night fine night for troublemakers State

your business I'm just bringing some

freshly quartered Hogs to the weekly

residents hog say you at this time of

night I think I'll have myself a look I

wouldn't if I were you these are some

big ugly Hogs nasty to look at and do

they ever

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smell you're right they do stink the

wheatly home is right around the corner

hurry along now the Red Coats have

Boston under curfew nobody's allowed on

the streets after dark won't happen

again much obliged

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sir this this is the place come

on Moses how do you know the Wheatley

you've never been to Boston I don't know

the wheatleys but all of my people know

fyis wheatle how from her poetry she's

the finest poet in the land Muse where

shall I begin the spacious field to tell

what curses unbelief doth yield a woman

who can write like that would never turn

away someone who needs help why are we

at the servant

St yes Miss Wheatley yes we're in

trouble Miss Wheatley and we are

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hungry did Mr Adam send you um yes

there's a stable round back the door

squeaks so be careful we can't wake the

master you're a

sl*ve when I was 8 years

old I was kidnapped West Africa and

taken on a sl*ve ship to

Boston the wheatle paid for me in the

auction and took me home Mrs Wheatley

helped me learn to read not just English

but also Latin and Greek please go on

well a few years ago all of the reading

gave me an urge to start writing poetry

and soon thereafter my first book was

published it has gotten a rather good

response in England though very few

copies have been sold in the colonies

that's not not surprising maybe you

should have put pictures in it the

Wheatley have helped me greatly they

even sent me to London but I don't

understand you're still a sl*ve my

situation is very different than

most the Wheatley and I belong to the

Old South Church it is our hope that

through meeting Africans white people

will realize how wrong sl*very is I'd

love to read your book I'm afraid you'll

not be reading it now miss Phillips we'

best get undercover before someone sees

us go I'll bring some

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viddles we'll never make it back to

Philadelphia on this axle it has to be

replaced good I like to stick around

Boston this is where the action

is me too if Miss Wheatley can write

half as good as she cooks she must be

another

Shakespeare hey how can a woman like

phis weely be Summit his property it's

outrageous am I the only one who sees

this those men tonight throwing tea into

the water all that talk of Freedom what

about freedom for Miss Wheatley not

everyone in the colonies believes in

sl*very Sirah talk is easy and freedom

is priceless I know I was born free in

West Africa but when I was not much

bigger than little HRI here my brother

and I were captured and chained to the

decks of a ship an awful ship for a long

Voyage to Virginia and sl*very that's

terrible Moses how did you escape I

escaped by using my head in my hands I

learned smithing a valuable skill my

master loaned me out for odd jobs here

and there and sometimes I was given

silver coins for my work when I earned

enough coins I bought my freedom back

and traveled to Philadelphia

there I learned to read and write and

was offered a job by Dr Frankin a man

who hates sl*very as much as I but Moses

how can you support those rebels in

England sl*very is dying here it's

thriving I believe America's struggle is

like my own the colonists consider

themselves enslaved to a Master they did

not choose and that's a fight if it

comes to fighting I will not duck I'll

fight you that

drumstick

hey

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oh it's very late we should get some

sleep good night

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all father I pray you are safe I pray

you will return from the West so we can

be a family again my lock is it's

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gone dearest mother so much has happened

since I have arrived I barely know where

to start I'm so so confused these

Americans speak of Liberty and freedom

for all but deny it to those with skin

different from their own I only hope

that everything will be all right once

Dr Franklin arrives and I trust that all

is well with him dear Sarah if only you

knew Benjamin Franklin the great Dr

Franklin friend of humanity inventor of

the lightning rod father of electricity

author the Poor Richards

Almanac Deputy Postmaster General of

North America yes he is all these things

but he is something more he is a traitor

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traitor I charge Dr Franklin with

instigating the Boston Tea Party

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the East India Company lost hundreds of

crates of tea worth many thousands of

pounds this lawlessness was encouraged

by Dr Franklin in his speeches and

writings his crimes are

enormous and for his crime he must pay

the price

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we must make an example of Franklin that

the colonist will never

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forget

myar for a

herid feeling the pain as

innocent looking at my

I take my heart battle give that freedom

rattle get

myp it on the line never up you

represent

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America cookie

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