Existing comment:
1820 reprint of Paul Revere's The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street
original 1770
Paul Revere sold color prints depicting the Boston Massacre a mere three weeks after the event, remarkably quickly for that time. The circulation of images of the incident, in which British troops killed five civilians and wounded six, helped create anti-English sentiment among the colonists. One of the victims, a man of black and Indian heritage named Crispus Attucks, is often called the first martyr of the American Revolution. |