Jack Hitt
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849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Wow.
But James Otis is still sort of in that hidden place in American history.
You know, at the time, Boston is this tiny little port town, population 16,000.
Yeah.
So it's like a large university.
You all practically know everybody on campus, right?
And certainly the people in power all knew each other.
And just remember, you know, we're talking about a time when no one is thinking of rebellion.
No one's thinking of independence.
These are British citizens in Boston, 1761, a full 15 years before the Declaration of Independence.
And at the time, you know, they're mostly merchants trying to make a living and make something of their new life in America.
There's a good bit of smuggling and everybody kind of knows it, you know.
And a lot of it was about getting cheap French molasses out of the Caribbean and into the rum kegs.
And so to catch these smugglers...
London has issued these new kinds of search warrants called writs of assistance, and they're blanket warrants.
I mean, you don't need any evidence.
You can come aboard a ship day or night.
You can go into a house or a warehouse anytime during the day with the barest of suspicions.
And the reason they're called writs of assistance is the other aspect of them, is that they...
Any agent who holds this piece of paper can kind of dragoon anyone into accompanying them on one of these searches.
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