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The Edenton Tea Party — women's political action
1774
Edenton Tea Party — Women's Political Pledge
1774
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1778
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Edenton

NC · American Revolution

In October 1773, fifty-one Edenton women publicly pledged to boycott British tea and cloth — one of the earliest recorded organized political actions by American women.

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The London Cartoon

When the Edenton women's resolution reached London, a cartoonist named Philip Dawe published a satirical print. It showed the women signing their document in a disorderly scene — babies on the floor, ...

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