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Before the Industrial Revolution changed the way people lived and worked throughout the en...
On January 29, 1774, it is possible that Britain missed an opportunity to end a revolution by the American colonies. A British solicitor attacked the character of one of the great scientific minds of the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin. Days prior to Franklin's arrival in London, a ship from Boston had delivered the news that a group of colonists dressed as Native Americans had boarded three trading ships belonging to the East India Company. They opened hundreds of casks of tea and poured the contents overboard. The loss of forty-five tons of tea was an enormous financial blow to the East India Company. This was but one of a string of uprisings perpetrated by American colonists over the preceding months. Rather than use Franklin's appearance before members of parliament and other influential British figures to search for solutions to the prevailing unrest, Alexander Wedderburn spent an hour berating Franklin for allegedly contributing to the growing spirit of revolt in the colonies. Wedderburn went as far as to paint Franklin as a self-serving, dishonest scoundrel. Franklin reacted to the verbal lashing with stony silence. If there had been any chance of utilizing Franklin's influence to smooth relations between Britain and the colonies, they disappeared amid Wedderburn's verbal torrent. Franklin returned to the colonies convinced that he and the rest of America should no longer consider themselves Britons.
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