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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Appearances
You might say he has a look of an English bulldog about him.
He's scruffy, too.
His jacket ill-fitting, as though he's wearing someone else's by mistake.
This is Samuel Adams.
a prominent player in Boston politics.
Like Benjamin Franklin, he's also a newspaper man.
In the pages of the Boston Gazette, he insists that American colonists have the same rights as all British subjects.
16 years younger than Franklin, Adams is one of many of his generation marked by the Great Awakening.
He's powered by an evangelical passion,
To him, Parliament's taxes are not only unjust, they are ungodly.
Today, on an August afternoon, 1765, he gazes up into the branches of the elm tree.
Directly above him, a figure dangles, limply, in the sunlight.
It's not a dead body, but a dummy, an effigy of the government official responsible for overseeing the Stamp Act in Massachusetts.
It's been placed there by activists connected to Adams.
One of them is Ebenezer McIntosh,
Locally, McIntosh is known as a bullish tough guy, often seen leading his South End gang in fights versus the rival North End gang.
Dust-ups in Boston are no rare thing.
As the sun fades, the effigy is cut down from the tree, but not laid to rest.
Ebenezer McIntosh arrives.
A huge crowd gathers around him.
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