History with Geek Girl

Hey History Friends! So 1773 turned out to be quite eventful, right? With a few things you didn't really expect as well as a few things you did. So, as King George III asks, "What comes next?" (haha- that part of the show was referring to after we were free, but you sang it anyway, didn't you?) Some fun births to note in 1774- Raphael Peale, who was the son of Charles Willson Peale was born. I'm just learning a few things about the Peale family and I've gotta say- I love them. They seem like my people!! I was able to watch a lecture about the dad, Charles Willson Peale... there might need to be an episode just about them! Raphael was not the oldest. He was one of 16, I think? Kids and he was in the first set, but decently in the middle. I just really wanted to mention the family because they are so cool. If someone would write a book for me about the Peales, the Trumbulls, the Wests, and the Copleys... I'd super appreciate it! Also born that year was Adolp...

 Hello, History Friends!! As we welcome you to 1773 (the Year We Finally Talk About the Tea), I wanted to let you know of a couple things that happened in the beginning of the year that maybe ya'll didn't know about before. At least, I didn't. First up, on  Jan 6, enslaved people of Massachusetts petition legislature for freedom. Side note, I had been wondering how to honestly word some of the rough stuff that happened in this time period where humans had the audacity to own other humans, and I noticed in the book I'm reading (The one about being descended from Jefferson), she always uses the term enslaved people. She only mentioned it as the word slaves once and that was in quotation marks, as in, that's what their owners called them. I appreciated her doing that because it helps me learn how to be more respectful about a part of our past that I am genuinely sad happened. Like so many things in this time period- this event simply got the ball rolling. It didn't...