Cruel Bedlam: Bankruptcies and the Break with Britain - Journal of the American Revolution

I thought this article about coloial times was insightfu. It is about recorded thoughts of a colonist in the Middle Colonist, from 1768, that resurfaced, concerning circumstances that fueled discontent back in 1768.
Seems there was much more than the Stamp Act and other taxes, that fueled the discontent:

"Because disputed taxes were objectively light, the current consensus stresses a narrative rooted in ideas to explain why many colonists sought to break with London. That view, however, fails to account for the economic distress that British policies caused the colonists. As a resident of one of the Middle Colonies, whose anonymous thoughts from 1768 have just resurfaced after being lost for over a quarter millennium, put it: “it is not the Stamp Act or New Duty [Sugar] Act alone that had put the Colonies so much out of humour tho the principal Clamour has been on that Head but their distressed Situation had prepared them so generally to lay hold of these Occasions.”[1] The same author then detailed the economic woes that fueled colonists’ discontent with the Mother Country’s policies, a discontent later elided into “taxation without representation.”