40. Wilkes and Liberty: The Massacre of St. George's Fields

40. Wilkes and Liberty: The Massacre of St. George’s Fields

Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3 — Other Forces for Revolution

Tags: U.S. History

06/29/2009 Murray N. Rothbard

Pages 177-180 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 5 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume III: “The Townshend Crisis, 1766-1770.”

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