http://www.sonofthesouth.net/revolutionary-war/battles/paul-revere-boston-massacre.jpg
This is an engraving made by Paul Revere that depicts the Boston Massacre of March 5th, 1770. There is a collection of text based primary sources included in another blog entry that connect to this piece of art. For a lesson plan that I created I had the students consider this depiction of what transpired and compare it with a variety of first hand accounts and testimony of people present at the Boston Massacre. It becomes clear to the students that Revere used this engraving as a piece of propaganda to encourage the colonists to join his cause for revolution. The lesson teaches kids to consider the validity of a source and also analyze an event from a variety of perspectives in order to piece together the truth.
This is a link to a site that is devoted to the Boston Massacre Trial that has all of the primary source material like the testimonies and first hand accounts that I used for my lesson
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/bostonmassacre/bostonmassacre.html
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