In the mid-1760s, British fears that a new war with France was only a matter of time leads King George III and his ministers to draw up plans for a permanent army in North America, and a Stamp Tax on the colonies to pay for it, sparking massive protests in British America and beyond.
Featuring: Jon Kukla, Patrick Griffin, Brad Jones, Abby Chandler, Alexandra Montgomery, Wendy Bellion, and Cassandra Britt Farrell.
Voice Actors: Adam Smith, Beau Robbins and Mills Kelly.
Narrated by Jim Ambuske.
Music by Artist.io
Find the official transcript here.
Worlds Turned Upside Down is a production of R2 Studios at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
09/13/24 • 73 min
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Worlds Turned Upside Down - Episode 10: The Stamp
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A crowd gathered in Boston's south end under a great elm tree on the morning of August 14, 1765, they called it the Liberty Tree, and from its branches they had come to hang a man charged with enforcing a hated law, Andrew Oliver was 59 years old on that Wednesday morning when he was condemned to die. A portrait of Oliver by the British American artist John Singleton Copley reveals a man with a prominent forehead, a sharp nose and confident, co
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