On Christmas Day, 1765, a new era in the history of protest began. So asserts Micah Alpaugh [1]; he describes how the Sons of Liberty, formed in the thirteen colonies to oppose the British government’s Stamp Act, innovated a movement organizing model that was later taken up by rebels and revolutionaries in Britain, France, Haiti, the U.S., and elsewhere. (Encore presentation.)

Micah Alpaugh, Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions [2] Cambridge University Press, 2021

[1] https://www.ucmo.edu/college-of-arts-humanities-and-social-sciences/school-of-communication-history-interdisciplinary-studies/history/fac-staff/alpaugh-micah/

[2] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/friends-of-freedom/C7F79A9B8C84B7E269118B989485EFD9#fndtn-information