The Boston Massacre

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2013

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The name "Boston Massacre" sounds as though it was the slaughter of a bunch of innocents in colonial Boston. The reality is much smaller - and not nearly so one-sided. But there's a reason why we call it a massacre. And that reason is propaganda.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from Hashtagports.com.
0:34.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.7	I am Tracy D. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.
0:47.7	And I think I may have been besensitized by living in today's world
0:51.7	of spree killings and mass murders.
0:53.7	Because when I hear the word massacre,
0:55.7	I think of something like the red wedding and game of thrums.
0:59.7	Right.
1:00.7	Or maybe one of its real world inspirations,
1:03.7	which was the 1692 massacre of a Glencoe.
1:06.7	And that's when soldiers under archbulled Campbell,
1:09.7	who was the tenth Earl of Argyle,
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