Just skimming the Wiki article on this and linked article on the Sons of Liberty, while they sound like shitbags, nothing mentions smuggling or trying to make money off of selling smuggled goods.
Boston Tea Party wasn’t about taxes, rather than the fact that the British East India Company found a way of importing tea cheaper than John Hancock could smuggle it in to Boston and it was ruining John Hancock’s smuggling business.
Smuggling was rampant in the colonies, because England wanted to see them build up more than make a small amount of money that bled the colony dry. Once it was established, the corpos moved in.
Source?
Just skimming the Wiki article on this and linked article on the Sons of Liberty, while they sound like shitbags, nothing mentions smuggling or trying to make money off of selling smuggled goods.
http://www.boston-tea-party.org/smuggling/organized-smuggling.html
Smuggling was rampant in the colonies, because England wanted to see them build up more than make a small amount of money that bled the colony dry. Once it was established, the corpos moved in.
Solid source. Thanks! Interesting read too.