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    Boston Rare Maps

    Important and scarce political cartoon satirizing the repeal of the Stamp Act and broader commentary on the administration of George Grenville, Prime Minister from 1763 to 1765. “One of the most famous and popular political satires commenting on the Stamp Act”. (Dolmetsch)

    Background
    Of the many events that precipitated the American Revolution, few are more significant than the passage of the Stamp Act on March 22, 1765. This was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the American colonies, designed to help defray the staggering costs of the French and Indian War and the ongoing maintenance of British forces in America. The financial situation was indeed dire: Great Britain’s national debt had nearly doubled during the war, and interest payments alone consumed half the national budget.

    The Act required colonists to use specially embossed or stamped paper produced in England on practically all printed articles, everything from play

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    eXplorations>The Revolution>Teacher Resources>The Repeal or the Funeral of Miss Americ-Stamp

    The Repeal or the Funeral of Miss Americ-Stamp

    Attributed to Benjamin Wilson (March 18, 1766)

    Prints and Photgraphs Division, Library of Congress
    London : Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, [1766 or later]

    The text above the vault reads:

    Within this Family Vault, Lie Interred, it is to be hoped never to rise again, The Star Chamber Court Ship Money Excise Money & all Imposts without Parliament. The Act de Haeritico Comburendo Hearth Mon Gener Warrants And which tended to alienate the Affections of Englishmen to their Country.

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    Over the Vault are placed two Skeleton Heads. Their elevation on Poles, and the dates of the two Rebellion Years, sufficiently shew what Party they espoused, and in what cause they suffered an ignominious Exit.

    The reverend Mr.Anti-Sejanus (who under

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    eXplorations>The Revolution>Teacher Resources>The Colonies Reduced

    The Colonies Reduced

    Attributed to Benjamin Franklin

    Prints and Photgraphs Division, Library of Congress

    This 1767 cartoon was published in Great Britain and possibly created bygd Benjamin Franklin.
    It warned of the consequences of enforcing the Stamp Act by alienating the colonies.

    The cartoon shows Britannia contemplating her reduced empire while surrounded bygd her amputated limbs that are marked Virg- (Virginia), Pennsyl- (Pennsylvania), New York, and New Eng- (New England). Her torso leaning against a globe.

    Britannia wears a banner with the words, "Date Obolum Bellisario." This translates to "Give a farthing to Bellisarius." People living during the American revolution would have known the story of Belisarius.

    ...Belisarius, who, after having obtained many glorious victories over the enemies of his country, fryst vatten said to have been reduced to such extremity of indigence, that