Of all the historic sites of Boston Freedom Trail 2.5 miles through the oldest part of the city, Boston Massacre Memorial is probably the least interesting. It has really put a 5 star carved in a round little blocks of granite by granite paving stones of the pavement on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection surrounded. If you happen to find the right time, you losecomplete. So why even make the effort to try to find them?
One reason to linger for a moment a memorial to the massacre of Boston is to think about what has changed since 1770, the cold spring day, when ', the massacre took place March 5. Although the Old State House was there, a few meters, almost none of the other buildings you see today were standing on. The elegant Old State House - then called the only State House - that would dominateLandscape.
Instead of tall office buildings that now tower above the Old State House, still many small shops, buildings of two or three stories, perhaps the Old South Meeting House and Faneuil Hall for short distances, and had seen tavernas - many taverns. At that time, the unloading and activities stretched from the coast, Boston Harbor was a few blocks to the east. They smell of salt water and see the manyDocks and piers.
But the most important reason of others, the second to linger in the Boston Massacre site for a few is that the five men killed by that date, the freedom of the first American man died for the cause. From this point of view, this is where the uprising against British rule began - even though the tension had been building the peninsula after the Puritans landed in Boston1630th
Although the Puritans had some English people, came to the New World religious persecution and gain independence and autonomy to run away. Since 1692, the British rulers William and Mary felt quite aware of the growing autonomy of the colony to a royal governor responsible for keeping an eye on the settlers. In the coming decades, the colonists resentment has risen to a level that they refused to pay the salary of the governor in 1720. Afterthat worsened the relationship with England.
By 1760, some settlers who are "patriots" are. After the British handed over the letters, the latest in a series of acts of tax cuts, 1765, a secret group called the Opposition, the "Sons of Liberty" was formed and soon spread to other colonies. The British invaded and occupied Boston in 1768, when the conflict between the control and the challenge of climbing. Noise in pubs and streets nearby were alwaysfrequently and the Sons of Liberty argued during its revolution frequent public speeches.
In early 1770, the bloodshed was inevitable. Both sides traded insults at every opportunity. Bar fights often spilled into the street. When a dispute broke out on March 5, between a young apprentice wig maker and British soldiers, the settlers began throwing stones and snowballs at the soldiers who were under orders to keep the settlersto control. Witnesses said the apprentice and his friends had just left the tavern and were looking for a fight.
intensified when the first shot sounded like a street fight, no one was sure what had caused the latest - but was followed by other hits, and three men lay dead. Two more of the eight wounded died later of their injuries. The former slave Crispus Attucks, African and Indian descent, was the first to be killed - and the first person to diethe cause of American freedom.
So even if the Boston Massacre Memorial is not very interesting, the history of the area is the center of the American Revolution. If you walk along the Freedom Trail and give this place to pause for a moment and think about how the area has changed in 200 years - and remember the men who died here, in the cause of freedom.
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