was the Boston Tea Party. Six decades later, an old man in his nineties, living in poverty in New York, Hewes was discovered by a younger generation ready for information on the Revolution. As this time the last remaining veterans of the Tea Party were dying off. Still eager and willing to talk about the incident of the Revolution, Hewes gladly told his story to writers and after their accounts were published won acclaim in his native Boston. "His memory itself became my subject" (xii), Young writes. Through interviews with his biographers, Hewes recounted the details of this incident. Not being one of the main organizers, but one who joined at the last moment with many other party-goers without full-disguise. He was nevertheless on equal stature with his peers. Hewes only disguise was coal rubbed on his face to resemble an Indian.
             In his account of the Tea Party, Hewes describes the event as one that bolstered equality. Every person in the Tea Party was unknown to the other and therefore equal. Class distinction was no
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