Government Center / Congress Street / Devonshire Street Stone / Cobble Stone
In front of the Old State House, these small cobblestones recall the tragedy that occurred when citizens rose up in civil protest against British soldiers. Although there may not be either bronze nor stone here, this monument marker honors the victims known to every American school boy and girl as the Boston Massacre.
On this site, tensions between the colonists and British soldiers erupted into violence on March 5, 1770. A minor dispute between a wigmaker’s young apprentice and a British sentry turned into a riot. The relief soldiers that came to the aid of the British were met by an angry crowd of colonists who hurled snowballs, rocks, clubs, and insults. The soldiers fired into the crowd and killed five colonists. Samuel Adams and other patriots called the event a “massacre”.
Robert Kraus's Monument on Boston Common also celebrates the fallen victims of this British tragedy. The first Irish and Afro -American Black to die for colonial freedom as well as political and religious liberty.
Kraus immortalizes Paul Revere's lithography print of this infamous day in Boston's political history.
Below Liberty is is casted as triumphant over British parliamentary rule. Freed from the chains of monarchical authority and patronage.
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