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
In the Boston Gazette, Samuel Adams hits out against the British government.
To protest the import duties, boycotts of British goods begin.
Many in Boston refuse to buy or sell any materials shipped in from the mother country.
This includes British cloth.
The only alternative is to buy American.
Difficult when the colonies are virtually untouched by the Industrial Revolution.
But America's women have the solution.
Professor Carol Birkin is the author of Revolutionary Mothers,
Of course, for the hundreds of thousands of enslaved women in the colonies, their lives remain unaffected.
But free women now find themselves at the center of public life.
It's not only city folk who are politically active.
Most Americans live in rural communities, and opposition to Parliament's taxes is widespread there too.
Jim Philbrick is a direct descendant of David Howe, whose story we'll follow in later episodes.
In 1766, David is only 10 years old and living in rural Massachusetts, but eventually he'll take up arms against the British Empire.
In the fields and farmlands, to the streets and the shipyards, anger is rising.
Protests continue, and colonists dig in.
As does the British government.
A thousand soldiers are sent to Boston.
On October the 1st, 1768, the first of the soldiers stream off British ships.
From his family home near the docks, Samuel Adams is able to see the new arrivals at close quarters.
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