{"_id":"65cac386e8cf0e17770becf7","title":"The Boston Massacre","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","code":"the-boston-massacre","publish_year":1851,"publish_source":"True Stories of History and Biography","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/truestoriesfromh1851hawt/page/188/mode/2up?ref=ol","words":1881,"image":"rifle.jpg","image_alt":"A cocked, smoking, shiny rifle. Graphite filter.","genres":["war","literary"],"description":"A man tells of the escalation of conflict between the British soldiers and the Boston people that led to the Boston massacre.","blurb":"He immediately ordered eight soldiers of the main guard to take their muskets and follow him. They marched across the street, forcing their way roughly through the crowd, and pricking the town’s-people with their bayonets.","rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}