Revolutionary voices colonial journal

With the enormous victory of the war, there was also a massive cost to it. 40 million pounds was the accumulated cost of the war, and King George expects us to pay off the whole cost. He simply does not know what life is like here in colonies. First, King George introduces the “Tea Act” to tax the tea that we drink. Then, he taxes the molasses that we use for our rum. What will the King tax next? The air we breathe? The water that we drink? Our freedom? We cannot afford to be taxed over such miniscule things for great prices. I am just a seventeen-­‐year-­‐old boy named James, an appren/ce to a shopkeeper, but I know that this treatment is cruel. While the rest of us are struggling, there are “Tories”, people who are loyal to the people in Britain. They claim that that the Bri/sh government is helping us. These people need to take a walk outside and look around them. They need to see the crumbling brick houses and walk on the worn out brick roads. It is raining here, but some people choose to ignore it.