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- Title
Loyalism and the Liberty Boys: Popular Politics and Allegiance in British New York.
- Authors
Minty, Christopher F.
- Abstract
The article discusses the American Stamp Act is described or represented as the first step that colonists took toward revolution and independence. It mentions the Stamp Act was the entrance of the unfranchised classes into the political arena; the Stamp Act was part of a broader maxim of imperial reforms; and Stamp duties had to be paid in British sterling, which was not common in New York or elsewhere, making the tax at least a nuisance and at worst difficult to pay.
- Subjects
NEW York (N.Y.); GREAT Britain. Stamp Act (1765); REFORMS; COLONISTS; BRITISH people
- Publication
New York History, 2020, Vol 101, Issue 1, p54
- ISSN
0146-437X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/nyh.2020.0005