Sons Of Liberty: Villains Or Heroes

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Sons of Liberty: Villains or Heroes

Did the Son’s of Liberty have to administer such extreme and sometime unreasonable warfare against Britain? How many heroes do you know create anarchy to prove their point. William Paine of Worcester, Massachusetts, in November 1773 wrote “ Dare to withstand those Devils that call themselves Son’s of Liberty. But from such Liberty! Good God! Deliverous. People sometimes referred to them as the “Sons of Faction” or the “Sons of Violence”. These so called Patriots destroyed property, revolted against the laws, and refused to pay taxes.

In 1773 an organized group of militants boarded three British tea ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor.This midnight raid was to protest the British

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