by Benjamin Wilson depicts a mock-funeral for the Stamp Act, which was passed in 1765 and repealed the next year after protests. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania) “Cartoons as Political Speech” ...

As colonial printers celebrated the Stamp Act’s repeal in 1766, they celebrated one last funeral with a famous political cartoon mourning “The Repeal or the Funeral of Miss Americ-Stamp ...

1765). Rare Books, William H. Scheide Library (WHS) 16.5.9 E.P. Richardson, “Stamp Act Cartoons in the Colonies,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 96, no. 3 (July 1972). Here are the ...