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This is half of an indenture to Edward Kendrick from His
Majesty's Exchequer in 1790. The top left corner shows the stamps which
had been required in Britain for a century for all publications and
legal documents. When the same system of stamp taxation was imposed on
the American colonies in 1765 to deal with the expenses of the French and
Indian War, the colonists opposed "taxation without representation." The
Stamp Act was repealed the next year, but the protest it raised revealed
the alienation felt in the colonies. |
