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The Great Bengal Famine and the Boston Tea Party
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Join National Parks of Boston and Boston Public Library to learn about the Great Bengal Famine. Manufactured by the East India Company through coerced monocropping of tea, led to the death of an estimated 2 million Bengalese. News of this famine traveled across the Atlantic World, from Bengal to Boston, fostering distrust, outrage, and disgust towards to East India amongst Bostonians. This program will examine colonial Boston's reaction to the Bengal famine of 1769-1773, and the role that this reaction played in the escalating tensions between Bostonians, the British Parliament, and the East India Company, culminating in the Boston Tea Party in December 1773.
This online program, co-presented by The National Park Service, will happen over Zoom webinar. We kindly request that people who are interested in attending please see the REGISTRATION REQUIRED box on this page for more information.
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