today we will be moving from the colonial area which we've been talking about and talking about the prelude anyway for the revolutionon became on of the colonial wars and more than the colonial wars. this is a sort of transition class period. we will be spending the next several weeks talking about the revolution the ideological justifications for it in the actual fighting in the wake of that and what do we do having

all this freedom and not knowing how to set up a democracy. we will be going in that direction. wewe just covered the founding f amjamestown in massachusetts and the colonies than last time we were talking about how diverse the colonies were getting not just the british but many different people and how much more population and how much they were growing at how the economy was booming and how the great awakening was dividing colonies one from another or people from the colonies went for another but also providing common experience. this is where we have come from and where we are going in today we are talking about wars and tension. the theme of today is a columnist were freeloaders getting all the benefits of british citizenship without --

the mother plant fought to protect them. they then the objected to carrying any the burden for paying their share of the cost of protecting them. we will talk about wars and the situation at the end of the last war and what the solutions are including the freeloading colonists. europe and the nations were at war over and over by the time you get to george washington he's telling america don't get involved int europe. they are always going to war with each other and so forth and history coming up to the revolution is experiencing enough of that. king george's war queen anne's war over and over again for different reasons having to do a succession of having to do with colonial empires in some colonies are really thriving in

the nations that owned them are in reaching themselves and othersrs are jealous of all of that. this is providing extra fuel to the already burning fires of the tensions between the three europeanrt nations so there is n extra set of reasons. these are happening. they affect the colonies to some small degree or another. this is the one that affects the colonies a lot. and in some ways sets the stage for the divisions that we will be talking about. weng called for the french and indian war and the fighting started in the ohio river valley and the 1754 but was officially started and that's why i called it the seven yearsrs war. the british and the french are at each other's not just in north america but all over the

place. it was a very big war, a big costly war. in terms of the sevener years wr in north america there is fighting in newfoundland. there's fightingn the city montrell, fort niagara and western pennsylvania. the french are winning. the british are winning. it's a real contest. one of the key turning points in this i war is the iroquois confederation. taking the side of the british and in that way turning the tables on the french and the vowing to british to succeed. and the french back off and the winnings in this war are tremendous for britain. the colonists who were mostly settled not much in maine and maine was part of massachusetts which was partially settled but from here on down what role do

they play and 40% in north america are colonial troops. did the british sent an army over? they were fighting for trained british army. 40% of those fighting are colonial troops. the colonies were contributing however the colonial army was very informal let's say. our professional troops, that's what won us the war along with the native american allies. what did the colonial troops to? they fought when it was close to theirr home. when harvest time came they left the battlefield and went home. so one of the lessons coming up of the seven years war is what's

goingt to win a future conflict is going to be a regular army and what's really important is the native american connection to that. what were the effects of the seven years war? territory. the french controlled all of this territory and claimed an lot of territory all the way to louisiana. in 1763 in the piece that ends the seven years war britain gets all of the territory east of the mississippi. this is a huge part of north america, much larger than13 the3 colonies that we had. it's' not doubling its way more thanit doubling. so what did we win out at the seven years war? a massive amount, a huge

victory. what else were the effects of this war? lots of debt. this was a big war fought in the caribbean, fought in north america, fought in other places on the cn on the land. this is a very big war. france is in debt, britain is in debt, the losses are real. colonial losses. it's not like we didn't lose people over here. the british losses, divergent views of what happened. if you are somebody who lives in massachusetts and you were fighting in lake champlain, you have a sense of the way in which you were contributing, you were fighting for the british. it's really different from the view in london where they are

saying this is the iroquois and our army. what thisrs person did fighting over here not really in the fields. competing ideas of the experiences that we just wentt through. so the seven years war is something that like the great awakening affected the entire set of colonies that have a common experience. all of the colonies were fighting against the french and were fearing what would happen with the native american tribes. so it's bringing us together. but also setting up a little bit of the divide between our perceptions of how the world is being fought into his contributing between the british and the colonies. does that make sense so far? do you have questions? if something is unclear? i can be unclear. so what did we do?

in 1763 different settled by seeding these territories in the british have all of these territories now. and one thing is clear to the british, to us and to the british is that things had to change. look at what just happened with this war and the lessons from it. we can't just keep going on the way that we have gone on. in t particular there are three things that we need to make sure we have right now there are three things adapt to happen. one is that we cannot have any more fighting. we are in debts. we have had this huge victory. we need to consolidate our gains. we have an empire that is worldwide now and so much territory. we need to make sure we do not go to war again with the native american tribes in the ohio valley that were a key part of the fighting of the french.

so they set up the proclamation. textbook has a map. along the appalachian mountains saying we can settle up to that time but we are not going to go past it because we cannot possibly have another war right now.ow so peace with native americans absolutely essential for the wholeti empire and for the brith north american colonies. the second thing is it's so clear that the colonies can't take care of themselves. look at how they were fighting creed so casual. when the fighting got rough they would run away. we had to have a standing army in north america if we are going to hold onto these gains. we had to have a standing army in north america. the third one is we are deeply

in debt and the entire empire needs to pay for the gains that we have gotten. that doesn't just mean taxing people in north america. doesn't mean just taxing people in britain or in bermuda. it means everybody. but we can't single any one out for special treatment. this we must not do. we are all british and so we have two the applicable and how we are fashioning and getting people to help pay their share of what was for the entire empire. the british north american colonies got a whole lot of gain from this. they have enemies on all sides and now theyey don't. what an amazing thing for the first time in the history of british colonialism inin north america. they have peace on their

borders. that's a huge thing that the empire did for british north american colonists but we shouldn't make them pay more thanth their share but they shod pay their share. so starting in 1764 there's a series and the war is just over. the proclamation linee of 1763 this at the end of the board ere was fighting for seven yearsht before that so right afr this the sugar a. we had the navigation acts and we talked about those the other day. those are the ways the british connected the empire and in essence they made money if you were violating them and in uk fees and so forth. mostly it was to guide trade to britain to ship things through reddish boards to get to the

colonies and in that way they made money and things are exported all the colonies to the rest of europe and that way they made money. they were about orienting trade and now they are about making money off of the colonists. defray the expenses of defending protecting and securing the colonies but the colonies had hardly been taxed at all before this. were we taxing people in britain? of course we were, all kinds of taxes. taxes on legal documents, taxes on goods and certainly real estate and all kinds of things. was parliament taxing the british north american colonies? hardly atco all. mostly navigation acts stuff. parliament understanding that they have the right to tax just as everybody is british. we are just taxing different parts of theye empire. in 1865 the next year they didn't have enough money coming in.

the sugar act didn't do it. they needed more so this is on legal documents. it may make us think about postage stamps but it's water marks on paper. if you have legal documents you are signing well and you are s signing indeed and all kinds of things playing cards all kinds of things. tested beyond watermarked paper and that's how they kept track of it and you've paid taxes on the watermarkedot paper. you had to get the colonies to pull their weight. are they paying more than the british are paying in taxes? they still aren't paying as much as the british in britain are paying inn taxes but at least they are paying a little bit more. they are contributing to all that security when our army came and the iroquois were able to push away the french. that was another attempt and we buckled. what a mistake.

parliament backs down when unreasoning colonial opposition flared up and as a british person i just hadha to say whata dramatic mistake. because what this does is it's teaching someone there something special if they are british like the rest off us. we are not rebelling. they get a little upset only backed down. what good is that going to do? we need to teach them a lesson. along with this we try to teach them a lesson a declaratory act. itoesn't raise any more money and that's a problem because thout the stamp act we are getting enough money into the coffers to pay our debt from the last war.

the repeal of the stamp act with this act would simply clarify let's make it clear to those guys in the colonies that parliament has sovereignty over the colonies. in all cases whatsoever the right to make laws, the right to tax great if you are in fact violating those laws you are a criminal. this is the law we are talking about. this is how society is going to work. in this way they are making clear the colonies after this we got rid of the stamp act of lease they are clear that they need to abide by the taxes we are setting up for them. and the next year with course have two pass more taxes. we still have a debt problem. the entire empire needs help. other people are paying it and d you to pay it too.

but it's new taxes on paper and tighten enforcement of what we have got. parliament clear in its right to tax tax. of course it's got a right to tax. all of thepl british people everywhere they are in the world push forward. legislatures, i mean if you have laws on the books in parliament is passing them you have people who are objectingje to them and saying let's not go along with the loss of britain treasonous is not a bad word to use for that. the rule of law itself requires you to abide by the law. and they aren't. so obviously if the upstart assemblies cool only real

assemblies are acting in treasonous ways you are going to disband them. you can't abide treason. these are in place for several years and after a terrible disorder in a terrible tragedy they choose i would say to repeal. they were repealed because the boston massacre. what a a tragedy. it was terrible. what the yng people throwing stones at british soldiers. they quarteredhe in a square and were throwing stones and snowballs. the mob was growing and growing. they were cornered. they couldn't get away and yes somebody, it's terrible that they fired a volley into this crowd in five died.

what a tragedy. but why were they there? why were they beingwh cornered? why were people pelting them with rocks? i mean what started this wasn't the troops. what started this was the colonists throwing stones and acting like folks. we did the same thing that any government would do when there is tragedy and disorder. we try to make sure it doesn't happen again. we should be able to have our army wherever our army needs to be and we moved to make sure there were no further problems. we repealed most of the towns

except giving it to colonial pressures. again i would argue it was a mistake. what this does it teaches the colonists that they are unbelievably disordered way of living is going to be rewarded by them not having to be like the rest of the british and the empire treated equitably. they wanted to be treated as something special. the east india tea company we had toto pass laws that are of benefit to everybody and tre was a particular part an important part of e empire. it's a very profitable company having hard tes it was near bankruptcy and to save it the crown gave the monopoly to this company and it

set a firm nobody also be trading in the colonies and we are going to lower the duties we had. remember the townshend duties in 1767 headed duty on the t.? they lowered it but even though they lowered the duty and were doing this for the whole empire, instead ofbr celebrating it be interpreted cheaper legal tea as oppression? what the hell is going on? they put themselves into a frenzy and they tea and we are talking about a cup of tea. we are talking about barrels, 45 tons, hundreds of thousands of poundsds of tea. private property is destroyed going into saltwater.

what do you do in the face of mobs who are destroying private property and thinking that's okay. what do you do in the face of colonies that think they are something special, who think that they can be freeloaders when the restem of the empire ps for the benefits they are getting and they are unwilling to pay. what you do is you crackdown. what else can you do? you have tried everything else. and you even backed off on some of the facts that were clear on the declaratory actndn the wake of this part passed a number of acts to bringhis

colony. we weren't having a problem with the tidewater. was massachusetts that had a problem. so we are going to make everybody pay. we are going to make them pay. we have got to close boston's port. restricted their representative governing body that we couldn't trust any longer. look at how they were acting. we were going to try british officials in england which would include soldiers byn the way in massachusetts. there's no way we do get a freer trial there and the army custody were tested the wherever they wereer needed. rebellion, contempt for the law behavior freeloading cannot be condoned.

the next 30 seconds, think about it. all right you colonists, you americans can you poke holes in any of my arguments there? you freeloading people, you. am i wrong with any of this? how would you phrase it? thank you. >> that's nice. other things that come to mind? to have anything on the british point of view? b just a t little bit but it was the right point of view in baby our elementary and middle schools in high h school's were

you learned a rather different story about this are wrong. what is wrong here? >> there was no explaining things [inaudible] >> it hadn't slipped into my british persona yet at that point. yes. it's not given the justifications, no. [inaudible] [inaudible]

it's a party. that's not the way it was taught i'm sure. nevertheless this is the perspective that we don't tend to get until you get to college. until you start on the first day flipping a map from one site to another in a book from another perspective. this is a different perspective but the piece that i want to press just a little bit harder on is any of this wrong? yes. >> may be biased pointing toward the british. [inaudible] >> i'm glad i was able to present it to you.

was there anything that was particularly convincing it was their piece of evidence for something you felt wow that's important to think about? with her something less convincing? think i'm going to leave that and i want you to keep mulling that over. at another bit that i'm going to do and then i'll ask some similar questions toward the end and what was the most convincing from this side to that site? the this is what i've put off right at the beginning. then this reddish professor trotti went on a tirade when he was saying unbelievably mean things about our colonies. freeloading? that is mean. we are in the middle of a class and we will talk later.

that was very interesting. freeloading this? that's just? winding? good what is the matter with this guy getting all the benefits quickset course they should have benefits. what? not only do we pay something in the navigation act that we pay taxes ourselves to the colonial assembly in the colonies. our h simply is have tax power d we've been paying taxes ourselves to ourselves. we have been running things within our own colony if we are paying as much to other people that we didn't hire but don't talk about is not paying taxes. you want to know what we should really be talking about? we need to temper the b tyrannyf the british. the british turned away from their faith in liberty is what's going on here.

in the wake of the seven years war over and over again parliament demonstrated it had abandoned its sense of democracy, abandoned its defense of us and obviously by the time you get to the course of act i would say obviously this is a word that you need to keep in mind for the next 20 years of american history. usurping, taking away the power and authority of the colonies especially the colonial assembly. the colonialol assemblies are me democratic than parliament. not everybody in britain votes for parliament and not everybody in the colonies vote for the political assemblies but a greater percentage of them men and i'm being realistic here are voting for their elected officials than voted in britain for this parliament.

it's more democrats in undercutting that is undercutting us and for generations we had a way that we dealt with theh motherland with britain and they are violating the way in which we have done business all the way through this period. we did not start with violent protests. we did not start this process after the seven years war thinking these wild thoughts that the british professor trotti was talking about. we were measured. offended? yes we were offended. we were offended by the line drawn through the appalachian mountains and the proclamation line. we win territory like european powers win in any war they thought. that's what you do, if you settle up at the end of the war by trading territories. you can see that throughout the history of europe and that's what happened here in britain

gained all thesese territories d they are saying don't go their? what the hell is that? that to start with this insult thing that we now have all this land and we have tripled the size of british north america and you are saying oh. stay right here on the east coast. that's. this is. so what could we do a? we were measured. we were calm. we had our legislators who protested to parliament directly that we are taxing the colonists and this is an encroachment upon the colonial assembly authority. this is where we started to get a little up in arms. legal documents throughout the

colonies, nobody can avoid the tax. this is a way of pulling everybody into a moneymaking venture that we have never had before. for us, not for us, for things that are going on in the rest of the empire. this is affecting everyone. legislatures result opposed the stamp act. we are getting our act together. we just started out and we will continue to petition but a lot more strongly and there are some people who are going to be en masse protest. some had some violence and i'm not condoning the violence but there was some violence where a stamp act official were and feathered. a t movement to a void british goods was underway and that put pressure on british mertens --

merchants and they repealed the act. why would they repealed the act's? because it was wrong. we knew it was wrong but it's clear that it was wrong. this is not the way we have done business with britain and with the empire and they are imposing upon us and our colonials assemblies ability to attack. the shows how we are right. we had to say few things to cover you when you backtrack fromg a wrongg policy. we didn't pay much attention to this so say what you need to say in order to get to the place where you are doing the right thing. you are taxingai us again? well-versed. we had practice at this point. colonists are boycotting british goods and there's a circular

sent around to other colonies about how to defy their duties. it's three more years before the come down but they come down. why did they come down? because the violence against i will call them martyrs. these people who were standing up. you need a standing army in north america okay to them on the frontier. you are going to put them in boston and? why the do you need the redcoats which is quite a different story, a red army. the redcoats in boston and how some boss -- boston commons this is not the british army protecting the colonies. this is the british army intimidating the colonies.

you don't put them in an urban area full of british people to manage the british people. so is it a terrible thing to happen? the course of this. who's to blame? the people who brought this army to block them. but the soldiers weren't were there to protect us. they were there to intimidate us. it was inevitable that there was going to be a conflict. and instead of celebrating the communists en masse at what the hell was that? we got tea from the dutch and now we cannot. cheaper tea from the dutch who brought down the price. what you did was try to cage us into a monopoly and under the guise of lowering the duty,

tightening up the enforcement that keeps us rigidly tied into, it's not like t. was t. like it is now it was the popular drink. it was a central part of british live in britain and the colonies life. for the last decade parliament overstepping its bounds year after year after year. it's not like we weren't telling them how they were being problematic if we told them and we petitioned them if we got out on the streets and petitioned them. this is justusex another example tweaking the issue of taxation by the people. these are patriots who decided it got to hit them in the pocketbook. they are not listening to us.

let's see what they think of that for the spirit of liberty is the live in the colonies. whereas a in britain and? are they in trying to the british sons and daughters? and then you push somebody far enough they show their true colors and we push them and look what they showed. all of the colonies not just massachuses. math -- massachusetts wa freaking out about this but l the colonies cutting off the ports and cutting off the lifeblood of massachusetts. that's trying to killhe the colonies. all of the colonies.

ending limiting and ending democracy in massachusetts? what a giveaway. what is it you care about? what is that you are willing to sacrifice? apparently the lives of colonists. democracy itself and the lifeblood of this colony. you are reviewing your true nature. two parliaments have the right to make such laws and usurping the rights of colonists forcing its way? this is the moment we have continental congress meeting in 1774 for the first time. representatives from all of the colonies come to try tot figure out how you respond to this kind

of an tolerable series of acts against us. was anything here wrong? no? that'se not what the issue is? was anything here biased or was i just telling the truth? >> i think both sides anytime one side does something the other side took it very aggressively a. in the colonies it was like you were trying to trick us. >> well said.

excellent. other responses on what's going on here? is anything wrong with? with their particular part that was convincing are now having heard the other side less convincingd than it was when he learned as a middle school? the colley said we are going to pay the equal amount of taxes but they never framed it like that. i framed it like that. the historians weren't bring it in comparative terms to what other people were talking about but that issue is one that seems by historians to be pretty darned important at the time. i don't know that everybody knew what other people were paying.

sometimes, i like this class. math. i've been teaching this since before you were born this class period and i like this one a lot. that's why i chose it to be one of my films. because every time i do it, i convinced myself the revolution was. and then i can do myself that it was a goodngng thing. if you can convince yourself of both of those things, and it's not that there's one part of the evidence that was right in the other partt was wrong. it depends on how you look at it. life is complicated like that. so yeah. the piece that gets me the most is the one that you are looking at their which is the colonists

really understood how much in taxes people were paying in britain would they have felt differently about the taxes that they were asked to pay? they didn't understand that and they weren't setting it up in that way. it just makes me wonder communication is a problem. if we talk to each other little better would be not of had a a revolution in? other other things from looking at this other side american dr. trotti talking about this that comes to the forefront. as even being more convincing or less convincing. at the side of the argument? how do we reconcile, to directly

competing perspectives, directly competing use of some of the samet evidence just looking att from different ways of valuing a different way? how do we find meaning in this moment? what an incrediblyor important moment in the development of the united states, wright's? on the edge of deciding i'm going to pick up a gun and start shooting at people and redcoats who i was fighting next to 12 years before? imagine what it would take for somebody who thought of themselves in 1763 and four and five as british first and then next i'm a virginian. one of my way later down the list and american?

what the hell is that? it's a classification to think of yourself is as somehow united with the other 13 colonies. so how do you get from this place of i'm british to let me pick up a gun and shoot the british? that the law in 12 years so this is a really important moment in figuring out what's meaningful inni this moment is a lot of wht we are going to be doing in the next couple of weeks and starting right now. what does this add up to? where does this leave you in thinking about this country and i want you to talk to the person next to you about anything in terms of this for another one minute or maybe two. just to get your wheels going on

this and we are going to talk about this together. >> i like a lot of the conversations and i'm hearing bits andar pieces of but i get tired of not being a part of the conversation and i'm extremely. so i want to talk as a group about anything you guys were talking about they came to you. i don't think during the seven years war like you said you didn't fight. they went back to their farms during harvest time and didn't care about defending their homes.an [inaudible] maybe the era of neglect we talked about last time the way the british are hands-off in governing the colonies and

letting them do more of their own paying? is sort of an underground separation that becomes revealed when you have all this conflict and maybe there is more separation that was already there. is that fair to say? i think that's an interesting thing to think about. thank you veryhe much. other things that came out of your conversations? what does it add up to? [inaudible] cement that's definitely the direction we going were the separation in fact gets more and more separate. we are going to be look at conquering massachusetts and we are going to be seeing this sort of process playing out with individuals with individual

communities. one of the key moments we are going to be talking about in the future class period is once you start something it's hard to go back. there is blood that has been spilled now so what the concord and lexington have happened in 1775 that were increasingly separating -- can we hold more than one perspective in our minds at the same time if they are both legitimate? are you picking one? are you deciding what is right and one is wrong? is that where you were going to land with this? why not? >> i looked at my notes and i forwarded my own ideas based on my own point of view.

>> yeah i hope so. processing it and finding what looks compelling on one side or on the other. just they show up nods or somethingg like that or arrays f your hands or something for you guys thinking some of the arguments were british moore -- the british were making made more sense than the americans or something americans made come made more sense than the british or were you leaning in one direction or the other? i get lots of knobs when i say two different possibilities. the first one where you take some from both and i'm seeing some nods there. >> looking at the facts looking at the whole picture and probably okay i would agree. i understood the british by they also understood the americans.

they were wrong. c it's going to happen. there is a way where you can step further back where i was going blow-by-blow at saying is that this kind of inevitable if you are separated by an ocean in your getting more and more complex in british north america? you were growing apart from what's going on in britain and you are becoming a more alienat? there's a way in which this is the moment it happens that there are natural developments here and there are interesting things that we are going to read about the justification for why wood for instant why would an island rule continent? it's common sense that we should rebel and so forth. we will be getting to that.

other things? from what was convincing on one the other for how we can balance perspectives? is there a way that we can formulate this to take different points of view of? can you think of a line or couple of sentences that would allow us to give a nod to the british dr. trotti and the american dr. trotti? take a stab. >> looking at both if you added up the two to british dr. dr. trotti the american dr. trotti think both of you would align yourself and that's the great thing about history

that there'll be two sides to everything. >> there's more documenting so we had to work off what people wereou saying then. i think taking both and best formulate your opinion that way. >> in fact you can apply that to the moment and say does not always happen in history that one action means that everyone adjusted that one action? that both sides are in fact movinglo along together in opposition to the stamp act that might have led to more

parliamentary members, parliamentary members being more firm about how to crackdown on things later that we were teaching minimalist and they were teaching us a lesson and those lessons on the boston massacre, his advance. history is not just one person moving around, everyone is moving around and in this case it got the british perspective in the american perspective bouncing off of each other. we would have been angry if they wererw so angry and they were doingo things that otherwise ty wouldn't have wanted to do five years before. because of all the things they saw us doing now they were doing. it's a bouncing back and forth.

were they usurping the powers of colonial assembly? they were to some extent. those were never written downy anyway. informal kinds ofnd relationshis that we had in the air of benign neglect. and parliament absolutely have the right to attack. we absolutely felt like they were utterly trying to change the relationship between colonies in the mother country in ways that we cannot endure and want to get to the course of act, 1774 the closing of the harbor and all of that, that just seems brutal. it really does seem like the colonists, you can't interpret

anything other than trying to destroy the colonies in massachusetts. you can't condone that. when does the american revolution start? that is exactly the right answer. looking at mu with big eyes and saying -- what is the date that are dramatically comes to mind in terms of the revolution and everybody is of elementary school or maybe before elementary school, what is the date? >> july 4, 1777. >> and there are good reasons for that. when did the fighting actually start? like to tune in concord was in 1775. when did it become inevitable that there would be fighting?

you could call that the ticking of the revolution and i'm not sure you could say it was a coercive act that was preventable and if you say it's a coercive act maybe what you're really saying is it's the tea actor the boston tea party or whatever which what was the spark? some historians call these proximate reasons for something to happen and the ones that are close at hand, the spark that lights the fire? what's the spark? is at lexington concord is at the coercive act? you can make an argument for any of these but it's a whole series of them in the early 1770s. 1773, 74 and 75 they are leading us inn the direction of the not

proximate and not the spark what what's thes tender and what's fundamentally putting us in a place where we are doing this with seemingly amazingly huge thing of turning from a 12 year i'm british to i'm going to shoot the british. what is the tinder? what is the spark setting fire to? i think thank you had to go to bigger scenes in bigger arguments and we are just building some of those in the coming several class periods talking about how colonists were thinking about themselves, the empire, the revolution that was underway. these bigger things, is it england's change? i'm going to say the biggest

change is 1774, i'm sorry 1764 with the sugar act and the stamp actt in 1765. because that's when boom britain changes the nature of our relationshiprn by turning the switch and trying to profit in a different way. none of that is going to cause problems or visit america gradually over several generations becoming something different and diversifying the population or becoming competitors with britain in terms of the new england states? seeing ourselves as being more and more distinct and generations who were born and grew up here? is a something like that? there different answers to all of this and it one more minute i

want you to ride down what you would say this class period adds to the bigger question of when did the revolution start? >> we are here in a special place that commemorates the importance of the university and the role that she has played and continues to play in identifying it as a literary destination. this is east kennedy boulevard originally a part of the road system called the old attack a highway slowed during the time she -- her parents brought her when she was basically a toddler so in the early 1900s this roadway now called east kennedy

boulevard was the old ithaca highway the link between orange county maitland in orange county apopka so the road itself was a historic roadway. we are in a place that looks a lot different from modern eatonville are the eatonville of the day and it hearkens back to what we call old florida and we are standing in a place where she is known to have done some of her writing. at a certain point she came back and forth to eatonville and at times when she did stay here we called this tuxedo junction. it's actually located right on the shores of the lake. it is a place as i say that she

is known to have done some of her writing. now we are at the matilda mazie house museum and we are here because matilda mosley known as tillie. matilda mosley was a direct descendent of the founder of the town of eatonville. a special in a place like florida and the south the porch is a social gathering place for family and friends in here we are stationed or positioned in the woods. what you see here really represents the essence of the folklorist. she was the course a writer but she was also a folklorist in an

anthropologist and what we see in this photograph is she's collecting full-color materials and this home represents the tying of the bow because you have a family, a founding family. you have the connection between the childhood friendship. tillie had been maintained throughout adulthood and you have that social interaction combined with the establishment of the town and the municipality the first african-american municipality in the united states and you have the writer that genius that establishes eatonville as a literary destination around the globe.