Many people have heard of the Boston Tea Party but not the Edenton Tea Party, where Penelope Barker organized the very first political demonstration of women in America.

At the tea party, where they drank Liberty Tea made from herbs, Penelope said, “Maybe it has only been men who have protested the king up to now. That only means we women have taken too long to let our voices be heard. We are signing our names to a document, not hiding ourselves behind costumes like the men in Boston did at their tea party. The British will know who we are.”

Penelope Barker and 50 other women became the signers of the Resolutions of the Edenton Tea Party. This document is the first purely political action by women in the American Colonies. It supported the patriot cause in response to the Tea Act.

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