The Boston Massacre : a family history

The Boston Massacre : a family history

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.

xvi, 296 p., [4] colored p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

973.3113 Z12 2020

(OCoLC)1104300975

Zabin draws on original sources and lively stories to follow British troops as they are dispatched from Ireland to Boston in 1768 to subdue the increasingly rebellious colonists. And she reveals a forgotten world hidden in plain sight: the many regimental wives and children who accompanied these armies. We see these families jostling with Bostonians for living space, finding common cause in the search for a lost child, trading barbs and and sharing baptisms. Becoming, in other words, neighbors. When soldiers shot unarmed citizens in the street, it was these intensely human, now broken bonds that fueled what quickly became a bitterly fought American Revolution.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-284) and index.
L2020M28

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