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Boston.
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So these radicals decide they're going to take action.
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And the Sons of Liberty basically are artisans and
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shopkeepers who want to act in resistance to the Stamp Act.
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Samuel Adams--who's really more a member of the elite,
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but he nevertheless was kind of a champion of the artisan class--
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and he's among their number too.
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So let's look for a moment at what the Sons of Liberty decide
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to do and how it works out.
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Okay. So basically, in Boston at the time
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there were two really large fraternal organizations of artisans.
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There was one in the north end of Boston,