Joseph Cummins

“If you touch one grain of this accursed tea, you are undone. America is threatened with worse than Egyptian slavery.”

“They scorned neighbors who drank tea and concocted an entirely fictitious sickness narrative around the beverage; they claimed tea stunted growth, turned men into pygmies, and transformed women into…’God knows what.’ They claimed tea was stomped into chests by Chinese men with dirty feet, that it was infested with bugs.”