Paul Revere: The Bloody Massacre Flyer

The Images, Cartoons, and Other Visual Sources That Shaped America
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Paul Revere: The Bloody Massacre Flyer
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Abstract

This engraving by noted Patriot Paul Revere is one of the most wellknown images produced in the colonies before the American Revolution. Such engravings were widely popular in both Great Britain and its American colonies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, serving as a way of spreading news and political commentary about current events. The popularity of engravings increased in the colonies in the aftermath of the French and Indian War (1754–63), when they became an effective means of expressing dissent to British policies intended to extract funds from the colonists to pay off the heavy debts caused by the conflict and pay for the British troops stationed in the colonies for their defense.

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