01x02 - Intolerable Acts

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I yet still I

know the truth will rise and

fall that's just

W to the

wise the world was made CH each is a

surprise I'm looking at life through my

own eyes I'm searching for a hero to

idiz feeling the pain

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in I take my heart battle that freedom

rattle get my Independence de C it on

the D line the freedom bring and

patriotic vo sing white blue never give

up you represent

America for a brighter day I listen to

my heart and I oby how can I see it any

other way I'm looking at

my

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my today on Liberty's Kids come on man

we have to catch whoever's hanging these

posters and if I find so much as one

poster it's jail for the lot of

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dearest mother they called it the Boston

Tea Party but believe me this is one

party I wish I had

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missed the Yankees claim all this

trouble is over taxes why are you

destroying the tea we're protesting

unfair taxation Parliament rais the tax

over our objections maybe next time

they'll listen rians C ly disguised as

Mohawk Indians destroyed a shipment of

tea no without

representation Red

Coats Abandoned Ship Abandoned

Ship Sorry Miss Phillips but I can't

print my story from jail let me

go I said let me go I'd love to but Dr

Franklin told us to take care of you

jade look

out in a street struggle I lost father's

locket I'm very angry America is a

strange strange place I can't say that I

like what I've seen of it we live in a

barn hiding from his Majesty's soldiers

sheltered by a remarkable woman a poet

and sl*ve named Phyllis

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Wheatley James HRI and Moses support

these radicals but I for one can't wait

to leave Boston

who okay okay I'm sorry Cesar I won't

brush so

hard hey allow me when is Dr Franklin

coming soon I hope very soon your loyal

loving daughter Sarah

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how many do you see

HRI English HRI not French I'm counting

the

English how many are there

now too

many there mustn't be a soldier left in

England what should we

do what should we

do the British are occupying Boston I've

got to get this to The Gazette right

away come on

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hria do you really think he's a

traitor on the evening of 16 December

the year of Our Lord

1773 cowardly Bandits disguised as

Indians attacked the Dartmouth a ship

flying the colors of his majesty King

George

III and who is responsible for inflaming

the subjects of Boston to this

violence none other than the man before

us the

esteemed Benjamin

Franklin his crimes are

enormous the East India Company lost

hundreds of crates of tea with many

thousands of

pounds this lawlessness was encouraged

by Dr Franklin in his speeches and

writings his inflammatory paper the

Pennsylvania Gazette continues to F

sedition Rebellion violence

treason you have no honor sir you are a

scoundrel sir have you nothing to say

for yourself the heart of a fool is in

his mouth but the mouth of a wise man is

in his heart ah the famous Franklin wit

perhaps I need to remind you a rope is

the proper reward for treason

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Boston Harbor is closed hundreds of new

soldiers arrived by ship this morning

the whole city is filled with red

goats would you please mind your tongue

where's my pencil I have a story to

write this is Headline

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News James those filthy red coats are

everywhere that's right James after that

long sea Voyage these lovely Red Coats

could use a good

cleaning this may need some soap and

water let me help you miss Phillips

fine morning isn't

it is you who could use the soap and

water in that smart mouth of yours

you're absolutely right you'll have to

forget my manners I'm an orphan I was

raised on the streets and sometimes

forget my place where's that grub we was

promised I'll check on it right away sir

why don't you come give me a hand in the

kitchen the kitchen that's Woman's Work

hey the kitchen of course it would be an

honor her to help my

lady what are Red Coats doing in the

barn it's called quartering a soldier

just knocks on your door anytime day or

night and moves into your house we have

five more upstairs I can't believe King

George would allow that it was

parliament's doing they call it the

coercive axe the Intolerable axe would

be more like it this is an outrage

that's right we have to cook for them

wash their clothes and they don't have

to pay a single sh

I am outraged too this spy was too smart

you are the funny one aren't you how did

you come to be in the colonies I came

here with my parents HRI was 6 years old

when he left France with his parents

they signed an agreement with the ship's

Captain to work for 7 years in exchange

for their passage 3 weeks into the

journey the plague hit the ship and half

the people on board died including hre's

parents the captain made me his Cabin

Boy

he said I had to pay off my family's

passage oh I work all the time cleaning

his room getting his food his clothes

alling buckets of coal and if I did

anything

wrong he threw me in the hold for hours

how dare

he I belonged to him you mean he made

you a

sl*ve enri that's terrible they Heaven

you're here now how did you do it Moses

and I went to the dock to pick up parts

of a printing press that had come over

from France we went down into the hole

to get the parts there was HRI on the

floor behind bars I thought they came to

Hur me but Moses got him out with the

handle of the printing

press it was amazing it was just what

needed to be done but how did you get

him off the ship we found the crate of

parts and Moses took the Parts out hid

them under straw and put enri in instead

we closed the crate and carried it off

the ship right under the captain's nose

right under his nose but we had to wait

another month to find other parts for

the printer I'm still not sure it was a

good

trade then I wrote to Dr Franklin and

asked to have HRI work in the print shop

to pay for his room and board Dr

Franklin said yes but then he did

something very bad what he told me I

must learn to read and write French and

English the speaking you have but the

reading we have to work on see work on

it work speaking of which I must get

back to my work or it will raise

suspicion Lieutenant Brampton was by

here earlier talking about the Tea Party

and telling Master Wheatley if Boston's

going to cause trouble Boston's going to

pay the piper that only makes sense

whose side are you on I didn't know

there was sides we're all the king

subjects Maybe you're a subject but I'm

a citizen I have rights doesn't Phyllis

have rights you know what your problem

is Miss Phillips you think too much for

a girl and you talk too much for a

gentleman Phyllis I need a printing

press I've got to get the word out James

until Moses can fix the wagon we're

stuck here the city is swarming with

soldiers who would like nothing better

than to arrest us for your tea party

take this James Tom Malone published my

poems I can use his press anytime

Mr Maloney Tom Maloney open up we're

friends of Phyllis

Wheatley there's no one in there today's

the Sabbath The Lord's day well the Lord

helps those who help

themselves remember Phyllis gave us the

key ladies first at last a sign of

manners red

we have to work

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fast oh

no what who goes there where' them kids

go off to I've been busy doing my chores

I'm sure they're around here

somewhere no I don't Basel

t on your feet those little

troublemakers have run off the city is

under martial law the breaking curfew we

better fet Lieutenant

Bramton oh

no I've got to

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warn I'll bet they're the same brats who

got away during the t- riot but they

won't get away a second

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time keep going onri a

sir the sunet good it's time to spread

the word what's wrong Sarah James are

you really an orphan I heard you tell

the soldiers

before it's true I was a tiny baby when

it happened

mother and father didn't have one of Dr

Franklin's new fangled lightning

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rods our house was struck and burst into

flames it burned to the ground I was

lucky a neighbor pulled me out in the

nick of

time Dr Franklin's lightning rod has

saved thousands of lives when I was old

enough I sought him out he offered

offered to take me in as an apprentice

and I've been working at The Gazette

ever since I'm sorry for complaining

about a silly locket when you've lost so

much more that locket meant a lot huh my

father gave it to me before he sailed

for America when it was around my neck

it was like having him near me always he

went up the Ohio River to explore new

lands when he returns mother will join

us here but we haven't heard a word from

father in nearly a year you're worried

about him see this

it's beautiful it's my mother's ring so

you see I know just how you feel about

the locket James I'm

done grab a stack HRI it's time to go

must you do this you'll only make things

worse I have to why because as Dr

Franklin's friend Edmund Burke said an

Englishman is the unfittest person on

Earth to argue another Englishman into

sl*very in summary my lords Benjamin

Franklin

the deputy postmaster of his Majesty's

colonies is a traitor the proof is in

his own words his own

writings and for this

treachery I ask that as a minimum he be

stripped of his position as postmaster

and that he bear the stigma and shame of

a scoundrel disloyal to King and Country

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from the bottom of my heart I thank Mr

wurn for everything he has said against

me what kind of trick is this my

gratitude is sincere you've answered a

question which has troubled me since

Boyhood but you have finally put my mind

at ease the question is fundamental and

when my fellow colonists arrive at the

same answer as I a great Empire may

fall more treason Mr wurn says I'm a

traitor but this is not true the

question he has answered for me is thus

am I a British subject or am I the

citizen of a new nation a country

distinct and different from England and

today I declare my answer I am not

British I am an

American and man can only betray his own

country my country is no longer England

my country is

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America let's put one

here hey you hold that's an order run

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what do we do now we pray Moses has that

axle fixed hry I think we may have

overstay our welcome in Boston how do we

get past those Red

Coats follow me

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look

out must have fallen off a cart come on

men we have to catch whoever's hanging

these

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posters are you all right

HRI which one of you said that James HRI

are you all right

whoa quick we have to get out of here

too

late everybody

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inside the wagon is good as new we must

leave town right now while it's still

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dark so my men and I are riding past

this print shop when I hear voices

coming from inside so I asked myself

what's someone doing in a print shop at

this hour on a

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Sunday you know what I told myself I

said printing these you have this all

wrong sir these gentlemen are interested

in my poetry they wanted to see where it

was published poetry you what do you

take me for show them fellas yes let's

hear this poetry of yours descend to

Earth their place thy Throne to sucker

man's Afflicted son each human heart

Inspire to act in bounties

unconfined enlarge the close contracted

mind and fill it with thy

fire right so you're a poet but I still

believe these runs have something to do

with spreading rebellion and I aim to

find the evidence tear the place apart

if you have to and if I find so much as

one poster it's jail for the lot of

you you me

what's your name Sarah Phillips sir

Phillips you say I served under a major

Phillips during the Seven Years w*r

major Phillips is my father sir is that

so then you're an English woman Miss

Phillips it's your duty to tell me who

made these posters the truth now your

father would expect you to tell the

truth to an officer in the service of

his

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King I I I spill it lit

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girl well I'm waiting young lady where

are my manners you must be half Frozen

riding in this cold

weather I'll fix a pot of tea on the

Franklin

stove there the fire is stoked we'll

have hot tea in half a tick um now what

was that you asked me something about

posters

nothing Lieutenant the place is clean no

sign of them signs I don't have time for

this come on men the Rabel rousers are

out getting away while we're Dilly

dallying with children and Poets and

tea quick to the wagon before they come

back Phyllis how can we ever thank you

keep fighting for Freedom that's how now

be off I'll keep watch until you're

safely gone

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thank you for what you

know I don't know what you're talking

about sure you do you saved our hides

James I'm very tired and I'm cold

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a I'm going to make a gentleman out of

you yet and I'm going to make an

American out of you yeah

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yeah a little more Moses good that looks

great dearest mother so much has

happened I hardly know where to

begin your latest letter brought the

shocking news from London it's terrible

that Dr Franklin has lost his position

as postmaster but praise the Lord he

didn't end up in jail or Worse James cut

out that

racket a little more Moses good would

you please stop that noise

I'm trying to concentrate go ahead James

it's finished Sarah what is it the boys

have a little something for you for me a

thank you for saving us

here for

me Moses made it it was my idea it's

beautiful you like it I love it but

where in the world did you get the gold

are you sure you like

it your

ring it's the greatest gift I've ever

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received

myar for a

her lies feeling the pain as

innocent looking at a li

my own I take my heart battle give that

freedom batt get my Independence declare

it on the line white blue never up you

represent

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America cookie

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