The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
The abolitionists of the North are the only true and unyielding friends on whom you can rely. ... We glory in the name of abolitionists, for it signifies friendship for all who are pining in servitude.
