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The Boston Massacre : a History with Documents.
On March 5, 1770, after being harassed for two years during their occupation of Boston, British soldiers finally lost control, firing into a mob of rioting Americans, killing several of them, including Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave and sailor, the first African American patriot killed. The afterm...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book cover; title; copyright; contents; illustrations; chronology; preface; acknowledgments; part i: context; introduction: with blood "running like water"; part ii: documents; document 1 american rights asserted; document 2 london's response; document 3 a governor's lament; document 4 a bostonian's protest; document 5 parliament's frustrations with massachusetts; document 6 unintimidated massachusetts legislators; document 7 a british soldier's complaint; document 8 a martyr is made; document 9 a most shocking scene; document 10 revere's rendering; document 11 hutchinson under pressure.
- Document 12 gage reports to hillsboroughdocument 13 preston pleads his case to pitt; document 14 boston counters preston; document 15 gage's hands tied; document 16 an eyewitness account; document 17 coroner's inquest for crispus attucks; document 18 grand jury indictment; document 19 a short narrative; document 20 a fair account; document 21 additional observations; document 22 town leaders and the battle for public opinion; docum.