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A citizen of Charleston promotes an auction selling imported goods such as silk, Irish linens, and sugar.

This June 1775 page from the North Carolina Gazette contextualizes Philip Dawe's satirical critique of the October 1774 Edenton Tea Party. It shows explicit references to slavery—underlining the continued importance of the practice to the North…

At the Edenton Tea Party, fifty-one women, largely of North Carolinian, upper-class backgrounds, signed a declaration supporting the non-importation of tea. The Edenton women attempted to replicate the 1773 Boston Tea Party, but were largely ignored…

A page from the "Monthly Chronicle" section of the Westminster Magazine.

A magazine article listing the postings of British troops throughout the empire.

Newspaper advertisement of a New York Merchant's sale of household items.

Newspaper advertisement offering a reward for a black man who ran away from his master in Staten Island, New York

Newspaper ad for New York merchant with imports from London

Newspaper Advertisement for a New York goldsmith and jeweler selling his wares