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Boston Massacre

The Late Horrid Massacre in King-Street (A Boston Massacre Poem)

March 5, 2022 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

Boston Massacre Poem“The 29th Regimt on Duty. A Quarrell between the soldiers & Inhabitants—The Bells—Rung—A Great Number Assembled in Kingstreet A Party of the 29th under the Command of Capt Preston fird on the People they killed five—wounded Several Others—particularly Mr. Edw Payne in his Right Arm—Capt Preston Bears a good Character—he was taken in the night & Committed also Seven more of the 29th—the Inhabitants are greatly enraged and not without Reason.” – Diary of John Rowe, 5 March 1770

Unlike the quote above, penned by an eventual Loyalist, stating the facts, the poem “A Verse Occasioned by the Late Horrid Massacre in King-Street” propagandizes the events of March 5th, 1770 in Boston when soldiers fired into a crowd of rioting Bostonians. The event is now known as the Boston Massacre. [Read more…] about The Late Horrid Massacre in King-Street (A Boston Massacre Poem)

Filed Under: Arts, History Tagged With: American Revolution, Boston, Boston Massacre, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Historical Society, Poetry

Crispus Attucks: The First Martyr of Liberty

March 27, 2019 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldSamuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick, Patrick Carr, and Crispus Attucks. These are the five men who died as a result of the shootings on Boston’s King Street on the night of March 5, 1770.

Of these five victims, evidence points to Crispus Attucks falling first, and of all the victims, Crispus Attucks is the name we can recall.  Why is that? [Read more…] about Crispus Attucks: The First Martyr of Liberty

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: African American History, Boston, Boston Massacre, Colonial History, Crispus Attucks, Early American History, Historical Memory, Monuments, Podcasts

Boston Massacre: The Townshend Moment

March 20, 2019 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldWithin days of the Boston Massacre, Bostonians politicized the event. They circulated a pamphlet about “the Horrid Massacre” and published images portraying soldiers firing into a well-assembled and peaceful crowd.

But why did the Boston Massacre happen? Why did the British government feel it had little choice but to station as many 2,000 soldiers in Boston during peacetime? And what was going on within the larger British Empire that drove colonists to the point where they provoked armed soldiers to fire upon them? [Read more…] about Boston Massacre: The Townshend Moment

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Boston, Boston Massacre, British Empire, Colonial America, Early America, Early American History, Podcasts

Boston’s Massacre

March 13, 2019 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldOn the evening of March 5, 1770, a crowd gathered in Boston’s King Street and confronted a sentry and his fellow soldiers in front of the custom house. The confrontation led the soldiers to fire their muskets into the crowd, five civilians died.

What happened on the night of March 5, 1770 that led the crowd to gather and the soldiers to discharge their weapons?

In this episode of Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History Eric Hinderaker, a distinguished professor of history at the University of Utah and the author of Boston’s Massacre (Harvard University Press, 2017) assists our quest to discover more about the Boston Massacre. [Read more…] about Boston’s Massacre

Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Boston, Boston Massacre, Colonial America, Colonial History, Early America, Early American History, Military, Podcasts

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