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"No taxation without representation" - The intellectual origins of the American Revolution

"A threat to their prosperity and liberty..." - Violent Intimidation

"Let the Daughters of Liberty, nobly arise" - The politics of boycotts

"Horrid Massacre or Unhappy Disturbance" - Bloodshed in Boston

"This meeting can do nothing more to save the country" - Politics and a Party

Boston Massacre memorial plague Boston Common

Resources

"The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a Party of the 29th Regt.,"
Paul Revere, engraver, Boston, Massachusetts, 1770. (high resolution)
Boston Massacre lithograph by Alonzo Chappel, date unknown. (high resolution)
Boston Massacre obituaries Boston Gazette and Country Journal, March 12, 1770. (HTML)
Boston Massacre as reported in the Boston Gazette and Country Journal on Monday, March 12, 1770. (HTML)
Captain Thomas Preston's Account of the Boston Massacre (13 March 1770), from British Public Records Office, C. O. 5/759. Reprinted in Merrill Jensen (editor) English Historical Documents, Volume IX. (London, 1964) vp. 750-53. (HTML)

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