The stamp act

After the seven years war Great Britain imposed among other things a stamp act on the 13 colonies. Did this act also apply to the Canadian territory it had just won?

The big Chinese items prior to the Revolution was tea, which was still the beverage of choice to the majority of colonists, silks, which indeed were aimed to those who could afford it, and porcelains i.e., cups, saucers, plates, etc, (the reason Americans refer to them as 'china').  But since no American ships were allowed to trade with China, that being a monopoly of the East India Company, all this had to be purchased through English middlemen. Ergo, the resentment of colonies who were blossoming into maritime states in their own right.

Edited by lirelou - 13-Mar-2013 at 09:27

Nick, that book is not published by any major university or even publisher. I remain a skeptic as to how accurate its premises are. 

Nick, a half-bow of apology. No, it is not published by a major publisher or press. However, Sourcebooks appears to be a legitimate independent press and not a vanity operation. Also, Alfred Blumrosen, while not a historian per se, had a distinguished career in law, to include a stint at Rutgers University, and served for a while as its acting Dean. Must of his legal expertise was in anti-discrimination cases, so I presume he had a acute interest in the history of slavery.