oppressed. while he s living the lie hive in london, his fellow americans are taking to the streets. in the mindset of the colonists, the stamp act is going to be the end of liberty in the english colony. act as stamp collector, the ability to outlaw essentially things they didn t like or newspapers they didn t like which would mean it would be a crushing of free speech. frankly was astonished by this. he had no idea how much the americans would like it and folks in america who thought that franklin was not sufficiently radical point add finger of blame at him. with franklin in london, it s his wife, deborah, who suffers the rebel s rath. the protests are some of the first steps from the long march to war. and in every war, there will be casualties.