VISUAL ACTIVITYThe Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, Boston, on March 5, 1770 Paul Revere’s mass-produced engraving shows the patriot version of events. Soldiers appear as a firing squad, shooting simultaneously at an unarmed and bewigged crowd; more likely the shooting was chaotic and the fatalities were from lower classes who were not the sort to wear wigs. Crispus Attucks, an African-Indian dockworker, was killed, but Revere depicts only whites among the injured.READING THE IMAGE: How does this picture attempt to enlist its viewers’ sympathies?CONNECTIONS: Does this picture accurately represent the events of the Boston Massacre? What might account for its biases?

Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University.