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Aug 19, 2019 · The Sons of Liberty were a grassroots group of instigators and provocateurs in colonial America who used an extreme form of civil disobedience—threats, and in some cases actual violence—to...
The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to advance the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government.
The son of a convicted burglar from New York, John Lamb would eventually overcome his father's legacy to become a leading member of the Sons of Liberty. His role was primarily as a writer, and he was responsible for writing articles and publishing handbills which helped to spread the Revolutionary cause in the colonies.
The Sons of Liberty were the first broad-based, intercolonial organization to encourage American resistance to Britain. Emerging suddenly during the latter half of 1765, chapters of the Sons of Liberty formed throughout the American colonies for the singular purpose of forcing Parliament to repeal the Stamp Act.
Jun 13, 2018 · Robert Longley. Updated on June 13, 2018. From the 1957 Disney movie, Johnny Tremain to the 2015 Broadway hit Hamilton, “The Sons of Liberty” has been depicted as a group of early American patriots who rallied their colonial countrymen to fight for the freedom of the colonies from the oppressive rule of the English Crown.
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The Sons of Liberty swiftly mobilized in response. Led by the fiery orator Samuel Adams, they stirred public anger at what they saw as British oppression. Adams and his compatriots called for immediate action before the tea could be unloaded. Thousands gathered at Boston's Old South Meeting House to debate a plan.
An English writer in 1753 knew that his readers, as “sons of liberty,” would recoil at tales of despotism in India and elsewhere. An Irish Protestant might rally his compatriots with the phrase. Essentially, a British son of liberty was the same thing as a patriot, or a “friend of his country.”
