Person1722 – 1803
Samuel Adams
Boston politician and leader of the Sons of Liberty against British taxation; a leader of the American Revolution
Where they went
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When Britain gave the East India Company a monopoly on selling tea in the colonies, Boston colonists disguised as Native Americans dumped the tea from ships in the harbour into the sea.
Themes this person appears in
- Islamic Empires and the Atlantic World1500 – 1800
Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence