Liberty Tree Tavern Socks
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Description: “The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.” - Thomas Jefferson Classic quote from Thomas Jefferson regarding the Shays’ Rebellion in Springfield MA, 1787 whereby Western MA farmers forced closure of judicial proceedings that were stripping them from their properties due to excessive tax increases. The Liberty Tree was the meeting place in Boston and the first act of defiance in the American Revolution (1765) by the colonists in protest of the Stamp Tax.