How the Codfish Started the American Revolution
New England biggest export
Treaty of Paris, access
Thriving fishery = trained mariners for Navy (Congress agreed)
1792, the bouny
wooden Sacred Cod hangs above commonwealth's House of Representatives
1768-1772
35%
vs livestock @ 20
Top fishing ports
Marblehead
Gloucester
Fishery multiplier effect
Trade
Timber
Shipbuilding
sail making
rigging
Competition drama!
British plantation owners
Early 1600s close to shore, 2 masted schooners, 6-8 men
skipper
crew picked by skipper
Sharesmen
cuttails, inexperienced boys and young men
hardlined for cod and processed the catch
no experience, cut bait, baited the hooks, processed the catch
retured by 30
or dead
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Fish merchants bought arms for patriots
fisheries served as nurseries for fighting men
fighting vessels to warships
State Navy
privateer
Continental Navy
Coast Guard
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early 18th Century
(dried) fish market expanded
80% protein!
shipping to Euro Catholics!
Pope all like "fish Fridays plus some, son!"
Not enough flair
Fed to slaves of west indian sugar plantations
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middle of the 18th century
Colony cod exchanged with West Indies for
Sugar
Rum
Molasses
Fish surplus!!!
French slave population grew faster than Brit ones, cheaper sugar
Pisses off British plantation owners who all like: "howcum they
nobye fum uz"
1733
parliment does
Molasses Act
timeline
dooodies
it imposes duties on imported (French) sugar, molasses and rum but the British stuff was not
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1764
Sugar Act
tariff
banned import of non-British rum
Parliment is at it agin!
Royal Navy now enforces and I AM THE LAW
Brit ship Halifax trip
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sieze the day! And the fishing vessels.
Edmund Burke, sez y'all corrupt and gotta stop
revenue from military enforced monopoly
NO MORE FISH SALES!!!! (Dun Dun Dunnnnnn)
And then...
boycott British junk
bored, unemployed fisherman
tensions moutn
more fish, ship, trade laws!!!!!!
then shuuuuuuut down!
Elbridge Gerry
Jeremiah Lee
Han Solos!
Job Glover
fisherman taxi driver to
George Washington on the Delaware
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Codfish Revolution
ship
Nouns
guns
jobless fishermen
slaves
EuroCatholics
sugar
molasses
rum
French plantation
Royal Navy
Sugar act
Economic sanctions from a ramped-up, military-enforced, British sugar industry monopoly lobbies laws crushing major colonial fishing industry leaving an entire coast full of ship-related biz with tough, sea-worthy, now-unemployed East Coasters broke, hungry, and pissed-off = time to buy a musket. Fishy kerblam! The colonies were good at fishing. Too good. And their success and the success of the french sugar product plus British greed culminated in war. And drive through coffee and trucknuts and jazz and comic books and peanut butter.
Presentation Concepts
Places
Halifax
West Indies (now and when)
Britain
British Empire
Legislation
Popeye begging, unemployed (Doh!)
Monopoly man flanked by British sailor guys
Old Navy
Mo Lasses? Aint had none yet
Animated timeline
Go back wards first
Jarring nasty vibe music throbs
Players
Parliament
Royal Navy
New England
Euro Catholics
ANimated pope!
Singing Cod fish
cod piece
GUNS GUNS GUNS!!!! 'Murica!
British FLag
Jobless semen (flaccid rubber hits pavement)
French Pepe Le Pew
Sugar Act: some bimbo being waaaaaay fake nice
Kooky Ginger bread man on strings, but miserable and tortured. Verrrrry dark
The Ocean!
Ship!
Fisherman Taxi driver RObert Deniro
Han Solo gun runners
Fish monger. Hath not a Jew Skechers?
Org char showing business like funnel chart from fisheries to battle ships
fishing vessels sinks, "You sunk my battle ship"
dancing fishes: "Can't stop, won't, don't remember what this song wuz, but we dired and 80 cent protein son!"
Pope pimps fishy dinns skip that cow to ditch that sin
Massachusetts
Gloucester
Marblehead
Captain Jack sparrow
Sugar Act
Molasses Act
Treaty of Paris
Boycott Brits on Insta, INSTA CHALLENGE No Brits, yo!
Doctor Who comes in, and American is like, I'm watching She-Hulk guv'na!
slaves
schooner
skipper
crew
cuttail
sharesman
All the When
milestones
range
Buff Numbers Sucka
35% fish exports
80% protein
Colonials say Zero British sugar (not really, but the French stuff was cheaper because they had more slaves)
All the mighty ZEROES!!!!! Brits say Zero French thangs
Brits say no Canada fishing
Colonials say, Zero Brit thangs
No Mo Mr T?
(no T?) And that's how you get starbucks
two masts
6-8 men
more slaves than you!
Fisheries
Fishing Industry
French Plantation Owners
West Indies slaves
Spain/France arms dealers
Sea Shanty
Gangsta rap
Europe
Vatican
France
Cod
80% protein
Surplus fed to sugar slaves
taste: close to Tilapia
lots of Iodine
North Ant, North Pac
Linnaeus
dense, flaky white flesh
Haddock
strips for cooking = scrod
Puts the Fish N Fish N Chips
Pollock
Bcuz "Culinary names" Other Cod crossovers and missapplied nom de err
Tadpole code, Saffron cod, Rock cod, poor cod, Polar cod, Eucla cod, Kiss cod, Cthulhu's Cod piece
= not Cod
Whiting
Patagonian toothfish
3 top fins (dorsal)
2 (anal)
pelvic fins (little arms!) over gill
chin barbel
water depth color change =
racing stripe!
dark brown common for rocky inshore
gray-green vs reddish brown
11-26 pounds up to over 200
Cod fish revolution! Codfish with Che hat
Fish heads video
Fish. Heads. Fish. Heads. Roli polii fish heads...
Pacific (cod) < than Atlantic
gregarious
shoaling during spawn
1/4 all fish shoal whole life
1/2 shoal for part
!: "schooling" is when they all swim in same direction
school is a type of shoal
Oddity effect = shoal member stands out will be targeted by predators
Therefore shoal w/ similar, and shoal homogeny
Most important
retired or dead by 30
line work, processing
Inexperienced
cut bait, process fish, clean up