Boston Massacre1

John Hancock stated “Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear; let not the heaving bosom cease to burn with a manly indignation at the barbarous story . . .” during his oration of the massacre on 5 March 1774. The “Boston Massacre” as it was called, was really not a massacre in the sense that a lot of people were slaughtered, it was a massacre in the sense that British government’s authority was not …

…war where the colonists would gain their independence from Britain. Little did these antagonist know that the were the cornerstone of the building of the greatest nation in the world. Bibliography WORKS CITED Dickson, Alice, Boston Massacre: (New York, New York: Franklin Watts, 1968) 36. Hancock, John, Boston Massacre Oration, 5 March 1774, http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/hanc_a49.htm; Internet, accessed 18 September 1999. Wilson, Susan, Boston Massacre, http://www.iboston.org/building%20resources/massacre.htm; Internet, accessed 21 September 1999.