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Reading The Leaves: Tea And American Colonial Identity, 1765-1775, Amanda Mylin
Reading The Leaves: Tea And American Colonial Identity, 1765-1775, Amanda Mylin
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Cynthia, an American colonist, had her heart broken as she made the conscious decision to eliminate the purchase and consumption of tea from her daily routine. For her, taking tea like the British was an ordinary practice that would have been extremely difficult to surrender, but her patriotic duty to oppose Parliamentary taxation was more important. The majority of colonists led very British lives that involved consuming various British goods. The culture of colonial America in the years just before the American Revolution was very similar to the “Old Country” in England. The same clothing styles with the same types …