Clarke Peters
speaker
443 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Clarke Peters’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Many Britons are alarmed by the spiraling costs, particularly when the empire is seeing little return on its investments.
In 1763, the French and Indian War officially comes to an end.
Britain is victorious, but defeating France has only piled on the debt.
The people living in Great Britain are already among the most taxed in the world.
Attempts to tax them further lead to rioting.
In 18th century Britain, the monarch plays an important role in politics, but it's up to Parliament to pass laws.
Colonists aren't represented in Parliament.
That's for the people of Great Britain only.
Yet Parliament now decides it's time for the colonies to cough up.
A tax on sugar is introduced.
Then the Stamp Act, a duty on various paper goods.
When news of the Stamp Act reaches America in the spring of 1765, it triggers outrage.
The colonies can't stomach being taxed by a body that they have no stake in.
They feel their rights as subjects of the British crown are being violated.
In Massachusetts, the anger is red hot.
A 43-year-old man stomps his way, heavy-footed, down the street.
He's headed for an elm tree that everybody in town is talking about.
Rooted at the corner of Essex Street and Orange Street, the tree was planted by settlers more than a century earlier.
A living symbol of the colony's past and present.
The man is short, stocky.
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