ABSTRACT
Liberty, an organized resistance group intent on repealing the A ct The Sons of Liberty initiated many of their
fellow colonists into the issues of revolution and the passions of protest
Formed in 1765, the Sons of Liberty was the first radical intercolonial group in America born from the
turmoil surrounding the Stamp Act and aimed at getting the act repealed. Although, as historian Edward
Countryman states, the leadership of the Sons of Liberty fell somewhere between “the elite and the ple-
beians,” in the demonstrations and violence that marked the group’s existence it reached into the lower
class, tapping into the anger about conditions that went beyond the Stamp Act itself.
