Book: The Boston Massacre
Author: Serna Zabin
Pages: 324
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This is my 264th read for the year
What Amazon Says:
The story of the Boston Massacre - when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot 5 local men to death -is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obsured a fascinating truth: this pivotal event in colonial America arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Professor Serena Zabin draws on original sources and lively stories to follow British troops as they are dispatched from ireland to Boston in 1968 to subdue the increasingly rebellious colonist. And she reveals a forgotten world hidden in plain sight: the many regimental wives and chidlren who accompanied these armies. We see these familes jostling with Bostonians for living space, finding common cause in the search for a lost child, trading barbs, and sharing baptisms. Becoming in other words, neightobrs. When soldiers shot unarmed citizens in the street, it was these intensely human, not broken bonds that fueled what quickly became a bitterly fought American Revolution.
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