![]() In the box are three compartments: one holds sugar the second, a prized black congou, and the third contains a Hyson green. The hostess reaches into the pocket of her lace-edged linen apron for a key which she then uses to unlock her beautiful mahogany teapoy, a square box affixed atop a three-legged stand. Imagine it’s 1773, and you’re a guest of one of Boston’s most prosperous families. ![]() These efforts were so ill-advised, and so unwanted by everyone up and down the commerce highway, they left the British East India Company with millions of pounds of unsold tea and the threat of bankruptcy. PREV BACK TO MAIN NEXT History Tea and the American Revolution Jby Diana Rosen The 1773 Tax Act gave the British East India Company a monopoly on the New World tea trade.
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