It was organized by Mrs. Penelope Barke on October 25, 1774. For more information, check out the related link.
Penelope Barker was a prominent figure in the American Revolution who organized and led the Edenton Tea Party. In 1774, she rallied 51 women from Edenton, North Carolina to sign a protest known as the "Edenton Tea Party Resolves," which expressed their support for the American boycott of British goods. This act of defiance by women was seen as a significant statement of political unity and resistance against British rule.
The Edenton tea party acually occured in the home of Mrs.Elezabeth King on the village green in Edenton.
Penelope Barker
Penelope Barker's last husband was Edward Barkers, whom she married in 1772. She is best known for her role in the American Revolution as the organizer of the Edenton Tea Party in 1774, which was one of the first organized women's political acts in support of the boycott against British goods. Her marriage to Edward Barkers was her second; her first husband was a man named John, who passed away.
The Boston tea party was not an organized event. It just happened.
In 1774
Penelope Barker was a prominent figure in the American Revolution who organized and led the Edenton Tea Party. In 1774, she rallied 51 women from Edenton, North Carolina to sign a protest known as the "Edenton Tea Party Resolves," which expressed their support for the American boycott of British goods. This act of defiance by women was seen as a significant statement of political unity and resistance against British rule.
The Edenton tea party acually occured in the home of Mrs.Elezabeth King on the village green in Edenton.
Penelope Barker
It happened because the Boston tea party triggered the women to react to it.
51 women were involved
Led by Penelope Barker, the all-woman Edenton Tea Party (October 25, 1774) illustrated the influence of women in the colonies, and their support against exploitation of the American colonies by England. It followed the better known Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773. Realistically, what is now called the Edenton Tea Party did not get that name until decades after the event. What happened in 1774 was far more significant in the colonies, as well as in Europe. Until Penelope Barker and her friends took their action. women simply did not engage in political discourse here or abroad. Penelope Barker was one of the richest women in the colony now known as North Carolina. Where the men at Boston wore costumes and face paint to hid their identity, the women at Edenton met for the purpose of sending the King a clear and strong message and had the courage to actually sign their names to the petition they produced. It is not known it they actually had tea, but it is believed that they did not throw any into the Albemarle Sound. When their petition arrived in England, it created such a stir that London's cartoonists used it as fodder for ridicule. A copy of one such cartoon now hangs in the Barker House in Edenton. Barker was not alone as a significant player in the colonies demanding independence from England. The Edenton Historical Commission maintains a web site that quotes from their petition and lists the names of signers. (see related link) So the Edenton Tea Party was not really a tea party, it was the launching of woman's political liberation.
With the aim of punishing rebellious colonists for the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed a series of laws known as the Coercive Acts in 1774.
The Boston tea party was not an organized event. It just happened.
The Boston Tea Party and the colonists boycotted tea and angry mobs broke out resisting the act.
the boston tea party
The protest that resulted in the passing of the Intolerable Acts of 1774 was the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was a protest of the high taxes on imported tea.