Road to Liberty: Stamp Act
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They said Britain bled for our defense. That her debts from the French and Indian War must be paid. So they taxed our paper, our deeds, our very words.
Newspapers contracts licenses even our games and diplomas. From printers like myself to merchants, farmers, students, and widows. It touched every corner of colonial life.
They called it revenue. To me, it was ransom. No vote, no voice.
We had to pay the taxes of Englishmen without the rights of Englishmen. In Boston, we gathered at the wharf. Our fury manifested in flame.
The stamps that muzzled us fed the blaze. From New England to Virginia, men of different trades found common cause. We began to wonder if unity would be necessary to defend our rights.
What began with paper and ink spread to musket and sea. A quarrel no longer confined to print. And as the smoke rose over Boston, the fire we lit did not fade.
It spread from protest to bloodshed in the streets to the night we cast a king's tea into the sea.
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