For generations, women have been the backbone of Assam’s tea industry, enduring harsh conditions, exploitation, and low wages ...

By the 1800s, tea had become the East India Company’s most valuable traded commodity. But, the British had a problem. They were entirely dependent on China for the tea and desperately needed another ...

The East India Company placed its first order for tea in 1664 – it could only be bought from China at the time and the Company had a monopoly. It quickly became the Englishman’s afternoon ...

On March 2, 1775, a group of women protested the Tea Act by dumping 300 pounds of British East India Company tea into a giant fire started by protestors. Secretary of State Gregg Amore and local ...

Thanks to the East India Company, exotic goods like spices from Indonesia, tea and porcelain from China, became part of everydaylife. Every year, huge merchant ships of the East India Company ...

Twelve Smyth County students connected with women who more than 250 years ago took part in protests that led to the American Revolution.