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  • Among them are people such as Rotch, whose Birmingham pledge movement invites individuals everywhere to forswear racial discrimination.

    The Lessons Of Birmingham 2007

  • Rotch had gone one final time to beg Governor Hutchinson for permission to discharge the Dartmouth, tea intact, back toward England.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • By December 17 Rotch would have to unload his tea or have it seized by customs officials.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • * The participants demanded that Francis Rotch, owner of the tea-bearing ship Dartmouth, and James Hall, its captain, return the tea to England unopened as a sign of protest against the tax imposed on this popular good in May of 1773.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • Rotch had gone one final time to beg Governor Hutchinson for permission to discharge the Dartmouth, tea intact, back toward England.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • Until Rotch and Hall complied the gatherers resolved to guard the ship; if the tea were secretly unloaded and dispersed to merchants, any hope of a political statement would be dashed.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • By December 17 Rotch would have to unload his tea or have it seized by customs officials.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • Until Rotch and Hall complied the gatherers resolved to guard the ship; if the tea were secretly unloaded and dispersed to merchants, any hope of a political statement would be dashed.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • They reached it about the same time Rotch delivered the bad news that his ship would not be allowed to quit the harbor.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • They reached it about the same time Rotch delivered the bad news that his ship would not be allowed to quit the harbor.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

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