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Boston Massacre

Fact: The jury agreed with Adams' arguments and acquitted six of the soldiers after 2½ hours of deliberation. Two of the soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter because there was overwhelming evidence that they had fired directly into the crowd.

MLA Citation: “Boston Massacre.” Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, vol. 1, 2015, pp. 163–65.

ISBN:  1573027537

Quote: Of the eight other soldiers, six were found not guilty. The other two were convicted of manslaughter and were branded on their thumbs before being returned to their regiments.

Phase 3 Sources: 1st Source- -Sanchez, Tony. “The Story of the Boston Massacre: A Storytelling Opportunity for Character Education.” The Social Studies, vol. 96, no.6, Heldref, 2005, pp. 265-69, doi:10.3200/TSSS.96.6.265-270.

2nd Source- -Farah Peterson. “Black Lives and the Boston Massacre.” The American Scholar, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa Society, 2019, pp. 34-43.

"Instead, as in the Boston Massacre trial, Americans have often achieved a "reasonable" or "neutral" solution to an intractable political problem by defining more narrowly the community of people whose lives and interests matter. There was enough evidence for and against the guilt of those soldiers to bring the case to equipoise. To make the math easy, Adams simply discounted the value of black life."

Summary: Adams in the interest of swaying the evidence to one side, negated black life as any value in terms of the victims.