The Writings of Samuel Adams - volume 4

The documents and correspondence of the great American patriot. These texts begin with Adams' efforts to rally public protest over the Sugar and Stamp Acts (1764-65), and continues as he becomes an outspoken critic of English policies, fanning the flames of public unrest which erupt into violence in the Boston Massacre in 1770. The Boston Tea Party, Adams' narrow escape from the British forces at Lexington, membership in the First and Second Continental Congress, signing the Declaration of Indep