Colonial Propaganda And The Boston Massacre

The Boston Massacre was in 1770, and was a clash between British soldiers and a large mob. It is very controversial on who started the incident, but their was a lot of colonial propaganda that came out on this incident. The colonists were the aggressors in the Boston Massacre because they taunted and “assaulted” the British soldiers, they made the soldiers think that their captain was telling them to fire, and their was a lot of propaganda and bias that came out to show the opposite of what happened at the massacre. The Colonists taunted the British and threw things at them to make them shoot. Most of the crowd was drunk and acted in an unacceptable manner. Theodore Bliss stated in the trial of Captain Preston that “I saw the People throw

This is an untrue aspect of the massacre. People may argue that the officer ordered the firing according to william wyatt’s testimony, “I heard the officer say fire. The Soldiers did not fire. His back was to me. I heard the same voice say fire. The Soldiers did not fire. The Officer then stamped and said Damn your bloods fire be the consequences what it will. Immediately the first Gun was fired.” You may think that this is true, but three people (Theodore Bliss, Jane Whitehouse, and Newtown Prince) testify that they do not recall the captain saying fire to the soldiers. Another argument could be that these are soldiers who killed innocent people in the Boston Massacre. This argument is also wrong because the people were drunk, and they beat and taunted the soldiers. Also, the colonial newspaper that published “The Bloody Massacre” was completely biased to get people onboard with the revolution. In the article from the Boston Gazette, the paper states, “the unhappy Victims who fell in the bloody Massacre of the Monday Evening preceeding!” This is obviously also biased and is only a piece of propaganda used by the patriots. It is obvious that the patriots deceived the people into thinking that the British were at fault in the