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Adams, John 1735-1826 Boston (Mass.) Trials, litigation, etc Boston Massacre, 1770 Law Massachusetts History Lawyers Massachusetts Biography Massachusetts History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 North America Presidents United States Biography Trials (Murder) Massachusetts Biography United StatesZabin, Serena R.
Summary: The story of the Boston Massacre--when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death--is familiar to generations. But from the very beginning, many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political. Professor Serena Zabin draws on original sources and lively stories to follow British...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still just a lawyer, fighting for justice in one of the most explosive murder trials of the era. On the night of March 5, 1770, shots were fired by British soldiers on the streets of Boston, killing five civilians. The Boston Massacre has often been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press, with Harlequin Books 2020