Question

From whose viewpoint, the British or the American colonists, does this image appear to show the event? What emotions or response do you think the image was meant to draw from viewers? What evidence can you supply from the engraving to support your answer?

Answer 1

By the beginning of 1770, there were 4,000 British soldiers in Boston, a city with 15,000 inhabitants, and tensions were running high. On the evening of March 5, crowds of day laborers, apprentices, and merchant sailors began to pelt British soldiers with snowballs and rocks. A shot rang out, and then several soldiers fired their weapons. When it was over, five civilians lay dead or dying, including Crispus Attucks, an African American merchant sailor who had escaped from slavery more than twenty years earlier.

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