Ken Burns

We're in essence kind of filing divorce papers by dressing as the people who originally inhabited this country dressed.

Nobody's fooled.

How did you figure that out?

It's listening to scholarship.

It's thinking, of course, that you're not going to have— no one in their right mind is going to say, oh, the Native Americans did it because they're protesting the T-tax.

They're not paying the T-tax, right?

Right.

So it's like you then go and then you talk to a scholar, in this case Phil Deloria, who's been studying Native stuff, and he goes, just think about it.

You're dressed crudely as this.

You're making a statement.

to Britain, that we are no longer, we're severing ties.

Now, this is well before, this is December of 1773.

The guns are going to fire in about 18 months at Lexington, a little bit less than 18 months at Lexington and Concord on April 19th.

But it is all of these little moments that lead up to boycotted British goods.

Women take a

huge part of the role of the resistance.

You've got people like Samuel Adams, who is a failure as a brewer and a tax collector.

It's sort of interesting.

You can't make this shit up.

Who is, his whole job is to keep his fellow colonists alive to their grievances.