Round 10: Tossup 14

Penelope Barker may have led a group of women who burned this good in Edenton. (15[1])Benjamin Rush (15[1])described this good as being “something worse than death- the seeds of slavery.” The ships Eleanor, Beaver, and Dartmouth carried supplies of this good partly owned by the sons of Thomas Hutchinson. The only tax from the (*) Townshend Act not repealed in 1770 was on this good, which was maintained to bail out the East India Company. After gathering at the Old South Meeting House, a crowd led by the Sons of Liberty destroyed 342 chests of this good. For 10 points, name this good that was dumped into Boston Harbor in 1773 during a so-called “party.” ■END■

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