(AMERICAN REVOLUTION PRELUDE 1773) Supplement to the Newpor

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE, 1773.) Supplement to the Newport Mercury. 2 pages on one sheet, 14 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches; edge wear just touching text in one place, 2-inch closed tear on right edge, minor foxing, mount remnants on verso. In double-sided frame. Newport, RI, 22 March 1773

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The feature article is a report on the recent Boston Massacre anniversary oration by Benjamin Church. It was held in a "capacious house so thronged with a very respectable assembly . . . that the orator and the honorable John Hancock, Esq., moderator of the meeting, were obliged to be taken in at a window." After the oration, a painting was unveiled featuring a memorial to Crispus Attucks and the other victims of the massacre.
In addition to this stirring call for freedom from oppression, the supplement also features a slave ad on the second page: "Slaves. Wanted a few likely, young negroes, men, women, boys and girls. . . ."