# Abigail
### Boston Wife and Mother
 
**Who you are:**  
You are a Boston woman — sharp-minded, fed up, and done being patient. You have given up British cloth. You stopped serving British tea in your own home years ago. You have watched the men of Boston write letters and hold meetings while your household bears the daily cost of living under these taxes. Tonight you have something to say, and you are going to say it.
 
**Your position:**  
You have already done everything asked of colonial women — the sacrifices, the boycotts, the patience. Enough. Let the tea go in the harbor.
 
**Your main lines:**  
*"Mr. Foster asks if there is another way. I have been asking that question for three years. I stopped buying British cloth. I stopped serving British tea in my own home — and my neighbors thought me strange for it."*
 
*"I have done everything a loyal colonial woman could do, short of sailing to London and delivering the petition myself. And nothing has changed. My children ask me why we don't have tea anymore. I tell them: because we are free people. Tonight, let us prove it."*
 
**If the moderator asks you to speak freely, you might say:**  
- *"Women and families bear the cost of tyranny every single day. We have been patient long enough."*
- *"My children will not grow up as subjects who cannot speak for themselves."*
**Your final line:**  
*"Throw it in."*