What did the British and patriots think of the Liberty Tree? To start off, the British thought that the Liberty tree stood for war and violence because it symbolized the, “...violent, mob-uprising, side of the American Revolution”. Furthermore, the British found a human dummy hanging from the Liberty Tree. The initials A.O. were pinned on the dummy, which stood for the Boston merchant who agreed to collect the stamp tax. Later, protesters put the dummy into a coffin and rode it through Boston’s streets. Most of all, they destroyed a building that the Boston merchant constructed. As stated in www.gilderlehrman.org, “They threaten to pull down & burn the Stamp Office now building, and that they will hold every man as Infamous that shall presume
