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Abstract What was the tree of liberty? This article takes Boston’s ‘sacred elm’ as a point of departure for exploring debates about the rights of man in late 18th-century England. The liberty tree is shown to be a revealing metaphor for the rights of man, with important literal resonance as well.
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