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Summary Of View The Image By Paul Revere About The Boston Massacre

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View the image by Paul Revere about the Boston Massacre. If you were a historian, how would you criticize this version of the conflict? What evidence is there to support it?

If I were a historian viewing this image in conjunction with our text, I would call this version of the conflict Patriot Propaganda. This image tells a tale that the British soldiers premeditatively murdered innocent Boston colonists, unprovoked. In fact, our text defines the Boston Massacre as an “Inflammatory description of a deadly clash between a mob and British soldiers on March 5, 1770, that became a symbol of British oppression for many colonists.” The keyword in this definition is inflammatory. One part of the image I found interesting was the dog in the lower
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