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Boston celebrates its tea party history today. One in Charleston, S.C., came first

Boston celebrates its tea party history today. One in Charleston, S.C., came first

On this day 252 years ago, angry colonists in Massachusetts boarded a British ship in the Boston Harbor to protest what were seen as unfair circumstances regarding tea imports. Dressed as Mohawk Indians, the mob on Dec. 16, 1773, dumped more than 300 chests of tea overboard into the saltwater – in what has since been immortalized as the Boston Tea Party. Thing is, Charleston had staged its own...

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