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Essay Archive - The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre
A Behind-the-Scenes Look At Paul Revere's Most Famous
Engraving
When Paul Revere first began selling his color prints of "The Bloody
Massacre perpetrated in King Street" in Boston, he was doing what any like-
minded patriot with his talents in 1770 would have done. Only, Paul Revere
did it faster and more expeditiously than anyone else, including two other
artist-engravers who also issued prints of the Massacre that year.
Twenty-one days before-- on the night of March 5, 1770-- five men had
been shot to death in Boston town by British soldiers. P....
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