How Did Paul Revere Use Propaganda As Propaganda

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It was on the night of March 5, 1770 when the Bloody Massacre went down on

King Street. The night was cold and tensions were high. The colonists of Boston

probably along with The Sons of Liberty, a group of people against the British, were

protesting the British policies. The colonists were already mad at the soldiers because a

customs official had killed an 11 year old boy a few days earlier. A group of men decided

to confront a British soldier guarding the custom officials house. Soon the crowd grew

around him so Captain Thomas Preston came with 7 more soldiers. Suddenly, there

were shots fired and 5 colonists dead. Paul Revere, a well-known Patriot leader, made

an engraving of this fateful night, but was it propaganda? …show more content…
In Paul Revere’s engraving he

shows the colonists trying to stop the British from shooting and making the colonists

look like innocent people. This was to get the people in Boston to think that the colonists

did nothing wrong. This is important because it was used as propaganda to get more

people on their side. However, this is not all true. According to a historical essay by the

American Social History Project it says, ” Instead, the crowd (made up of about 300

people) taunted the British soldiers and threw snowballs and brickbats at them.” This is

important because Paul Revere’s engraving made the colonists look like innocent

people when really their action caused a reaction from the soldiers. The colonists

throwing things at the British proves that they weren’t as innocent as Paul Revere

portrayed them to be.

When the British soldiers came it was not their intention to shoot as Paul Revere

made it seem. In the engraving by Paul Revere it shows a British captain telling his men

to shoot when in truth this did not happen. Paul Revere wanted people to think that
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