When Boston Was Closed: Ordinary Bostonians and the Intolerable Acts

On June 1, 1774, British officials shut down the port of Boston as punishment for the dumping of East India Company tea six months earlier. Overnight, ship traffic stopped and the wharves fell silent.

In this lecture, Joseph M. Adelman will discuss how Bostonians lost access to goods and work that they relied on and explore how working people coped with the economic fallout.