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Publisher: Journals Gateway
The New England Quarterly (2017) 90 (4): 502–539.
Published: 01 December 2017
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In the years before the American Revolution, “A scene of Villainy acted by a dirty Banditti” argues, Boston's Sons of Liberty built their claim to govern their community, at the expense of both Loyalists and laboring Bostonians, by transforming a street fight between soldiers and civilians into the Boston Massacre.