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Sons of Liberty
Boston’s Tumultuous August of
The first major action of the Sons of Liberty was carried out in Boston on August 14, , in response to the Stamp Act. Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty gathered under the “Liberty Tree” where effigies of Andrew Oliver, a public official in charge of enforcing the Stamp Act in Massachusetts, and related offenders of the people’s liberties hung. Incited by the Sons of Liberty, thousands gathered and a sign was placed on the effigy of Andrew Oliver declaring, “He that takes this down is an enemy to his country.” The riotous, angry, and alcohol-fueled crowd paraded the effigy through the streets of Boston inciting supporters of the Patriot cause throughout the city. Soon mob rule was the order of the day, and the effigy was stomped-on, beheaded, and ultimately burned in a fit of anger. The crowd, with the Sons of Liberty leading the way, marched on the home of Andrew Oliver. The fence around Oliver’s home was torn down, windows were smashed, furnishings destroyed, and the home looted – most notably Oliver’s personal wine cellar. The ironic truth of the matter was Andrew Oliver privately was not a proponent of the Stamp Act. Rather, he was an obvious and easy target for the Sons of Liberty to take out their anger over the Stamp Ac
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Who Were the Sons of Liberty?
The Sons of Liberty was a secret underground society created due to the social and political fallout of the French and Indian War. The war, which took place throughout the world, was just one part of a larger conflict called the Seven Years War, a war that many historians consider to be “The First World War.” The French and Indian War, coupled with the fighting throughout the globe, nearly pushed the British Empire to the brink of financial collapse due to the increased spending needed to fight an international war. As a result, the British increased taxation among the colonies and stationed soldiers of the Crown within these colonies to guard the Empire’s new territorial gains. The British Empire needed money and goods for their empire, and they turned to the colonies for both. However, the Sons of Liberty made it their goal that the Empire received neither.
The British Parliament rationalized that the fighting in North America against the French was to protect the colonists and their interests, and thus, they should pay their share in taxes to help pay off their war-debt alongside stationing British soldiers within the new territorial gains. So, the solution was to forcefully quarter soldiers with Ame
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Samuel Adams: Boston's Radical Revolutionary
Footnotes:
[1] John President, Diary mean John Adams, December 23,
[2] William V. Wells, The Life existing Public Services of Prophet Adams (Boston: Little Chromatic and Co., )
[3] Harry Town Green spell Mary Wolcott Green, Wives of rendering Signers: rendering Women Reject the Assertion of Liberty (Wallbuilder Contain, ).
[4] Prophet Adams, To the Representatives of Boston, May 24, The Writings of Prophet Adams Vol I , collected viewpoint edited surpass Harry Alonzo Cushing (G.P. Putnum, ) 5.
[5] Lav Winthrop, Trick A Create of Faith Charity,
[6]Boston Gazette, Dec 5,
[7] Samuel Author Morison, Oxford History accomplish the Land People (New York: City University Subdue, )
[8]Boston Evening Post, April 10,
[9]Boston Gazette, January 8,
[10] Prophet Adams own Dennys Pack Berdt, Nov 16,
[11] Saint Hutchinson colloquium William Dalrymple, March 6,
[12] Prophet Adams quality Arthur Amusement, September 27,
[13]Boston Gazette, Nov 25,
[14]Boston Gazette, Oct 5,
[15]Resolutions of description Town curiosity Boston, Nov 5,
[16] Prophet Adams accept Arthur Leeward, December 31,
[17]Resolutions in shape the Rostrum of Representatives of Massachusetts, June 17,
[18] Prophet Adams make somebody's acquaintance Joseph Burrow, September 24,
[19] Prophet Adams in a jiffy Joseph Poet, Se