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Sons of Liberty
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The Sons of Liberty was a loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies founded to defend the rights of the colonists, including th
A 1765 handbill, announcing an upcoming "Sons of Liberty" public event
A 1765 handbill, announcing an upcoming "Sons of Liberty" public event
The Bostonian Paying the Excise-Man, 1774 British anti-American propaganda cartoon, referring to the tarring and feathering of Boston Commissioner of
The Bostonian Paying the Excise-Man, 1774 British anti-American propaganda cartoon, referring to the tarring and feathering of Boston Commissioner of Customs John Malcolm four weeks after the Boston Tea Party. The men also are shown pouring "Tea" down Malcolm's throat; note the noose hanging on the Liberty Tree and the Stamp Act posted upside-down.
1st row: Samuel Adams • Benedict Arnold • John Hancock • Patrick Henry • James Otis, Jr. 2nd row: Paul Revere • James Swan • Alexander McDougall • Ben
1st row: Samuel Adams • Benedict Arnold • John Hancock • Patrick Henry • James Otis, Jr. 2nd row: Paul Revere • James Swan • Alexander McDougall • Benjamin Rush • Charles Thomson 3rd row: Joseph Warren • Marinus Willett • Oliver Wolcott • Christopher Gadsden • Haym Salomon Not pictured: Hercules Mulligan, Thomas Melvill, Isaac Sears
Isaac Barré's use of the term "Sons of Liberty" during his opposition to the Stamp Act popularized it.
Isaac Barré's use of the term "Sons of Liberty" during his opposition to the Stamp Act popularized it.
Boston Tea Party
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The Boston Tea Party was an act of protest on December 16, 1773, during the American Revolution. Initiated by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, one of the Thirteen Colonies
Sons of Liberty
…stridently oppose giving any support to the monarchy. The Bostonian branch of the Sons of Liberty was responsible for organizing and executing the famous Boston Tea Party of 1773 in response to the Tea Act. Early in the American Revolution, the former Sons of Liberty generally joined more formal groups, such as the…
Boston Tea Party, an engraving in The History of North America, a 1799 book by William Cooper
Boston Tea Party, an engraving in The History of North America, a 1799 book by William Cooper
The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor, an iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard. Co
The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor, an iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard. Contrary to Currier's depiction, few of the men dumping the tea were actually disguised as American Indians.
A 1775 British cartoon, A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina, satirizing the Edenton Tea Party, a group of American women who or
A 1775 British cartoon, A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton in North Carolina, satirizing the Edenton Tea Party, a group of American women who organized a boycott of British tea
A notice from the "Chairman of the Committee for Tarring and Feathering" in Boston, denouncing the tea consignees as "traitors to their country"
A notice from the "Chairman of the Committee for Tarring and Feathering" in Boston, denouncing the tea consignees as "traitors to their country"