'Indignation meeting'

Old South Meeting House (built in 1779) back in 1968

Old South Meeting House (built in 1779) back in 1968

“The next night an indignation meeting was held in Boston’s Old South Meeting House, a prime example of one of the most original and durable of New England colonial institutions: the church considered  not only as a place of worship but as a court of law and a social center and the very hub of political life.’’

— Author and BBC commentator Alistair Cooke (1908-2004) on the response to the Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770) in America (1973)

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