Boston was where colonial grievances crystallized into action. For a decade before Lexington, this port city served as the laboratory of resistance—testing boycotts, organizing committees, and provoking confrontations that forced both sides toward open conflict.
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HISTORICAL VOICE
The First to Fall
Crispus Attucks died in the snow outside the Custom House, shot through the chest by British musket fire. He was approximately forty-seven years old, a sailor and rope-maker, a man of African and Nati...
MODERN VOICE
Walking Where It Happened
I've walked the Freedom Trail thousands of times—2.5 miles, sixteen official sites, roughly ninety minutes if you don't stop. But I never walk it the same way twice. Every group brings different ques...