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And you can hear this on both sides
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coming from the accounts of the Boston Massacre
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by both Gage and Adams--and I read from them last week.
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And I did mention in class when I read from them
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that they were of course writing with a purpose in mind
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so they were interested in being particularly bold
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and dramatic in what they were saying.
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Gage really had to excuse what happened and
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Adams was trying to promote people to get upset about what had happened,
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but even so you can hear even just in the way
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that they framed their accounts some of what I'm talking
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about here with growing hostility, growing alienation.