Edenton boycott
A British cartoon satirizing the Edenton Tea Party participants. The Edenton Tea Party was a women-led boycott of British products. Because women ran the household, their purchasing power was vital; boycotts such as this supported the war effort.
Several of the women have pretensions to extreme high fashion (with small caps perched on huge "big hair" headdresses), the woman chairing the meeting and holding the gavel is rather ugly (in 1775, just the very idea of women holding political-type meetings with public speaking and rules of debate would have been humorous to many), one of the women holding a quill is flirting with a man, the woman sitting next to the chairwoman looks like she would like to flirt with men if they would pay attention to her, flasks of alcohol are much in evidence, and underneath the table a child holding a tray of food is harassed by a urinating dog (this implies an accusation that the women are not good mothers). The text of the resolution reads "We the Ladys of Edenton do hereby solemnly Engage not to Conform to that Pernicious Custom of Drinking Tea, or that we the aforesaid Ladys Promote the use of any Manufacture from England, until such time that all Acts which tend to Enslave this our Native Country shall be Repealed."
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