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A White Woman Describes the American Revolution from a Seneca Perspective
Mary Jemison, a white woman captured by Indians on the Pennsylvania frontier during the Seven Years' War and adopted into the Seneca tribe, recounts her experience of the American War for Independence from a Native American perspective. The Senecas, [...]
Item Type: Oral History
Historical Era: Revolution and New Nation (1751-1815)
A Shoemaker Describes His Role in the Boston Tea Party
In 1773, the British parliament passed the Tea Act, which gave the British East India Company a monopoly on tea imports into the colonies. Angry colonists responded by refusing to allow ships carrying the tea to land or unload their cargo. In [...]
Tags: Revolutionary War
Item Type: Oral History
Historical Era: Revolution and New Nation (1751-1815)