Reserve your ticket now for tonights Fall Speaker Series at Old North Church featuring Jonathan Chus Stumbling Towards the Constitution: Tea, the China Trade, and the Economic Consequences of Independence! Lecture begins at 6:30pm Underwater mortgages, falling prices, too many lawsuits and bankruptcies, and the dollar isn’t worth anything. Welcome to the United States in 1783-1787. Stumbling towards the Constitution examines tea and the ways in which it reflects both problems and solutions to the desperate economic straits in which the newly independent United States found itself. Through an examination of the tea trade, Chu points out how merchants, in the course of doing business, came to see the necessity for the regulatory powers of the federal government. Reserve your ticket: https://eventbrite/e/old-north-speaker-series-jonat… For more holiday events: winteronthewaterfront.org/holiday_kickoff
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:44:00 +0000
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