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The bloody massacre perpetrated in King-Street, Boston on March 5th, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt. : the unhappy sufferers were Mess.s Saml. Gray, Saml. Maverick, Jams. Caldwell, Crispus Attucks & Patk. Carr killed. Six wounded; two of them (Christe.

Hand-colored engraving. Paul Revere issued this famous print less than a month after the Boston Massacre, and it became an important piece of visual propaganda for colonial Americans. The New-York Historical Society's copy is one of the rare copies that show Crispus Attucks as a Black man. He was an American stevedore of African and Native American descent, widely regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the American Revolution.

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Hand-colored engraving. Paul Revere issued this famous print less than a month after the Boston Massacre, and it became an important piece of visual propaganda for colonial Americans. The New-York Historical Society's copy is one of the rare copies that show Crispus Attucks as a Black man. He was an American stevedore of African and Native American descent, widely regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre and thus the first American killed in the American Revolution.
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nyhs:235257
NYHS Identifier
Print Room – PR 058
29405_BostonMassacre_Revere.tif
Owning Institution
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The bloody massacre perpetrated in King-Street, Boston on March 5th, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt. : the unhappy sufferers were Mess.s Saml. Gray, Saml. Maverick, Jams. Caldwell, Crispus Attucks & Patk. Carr killed. Six wounded; two of them (Christe. Monk & John Clark) mortally
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1770
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