Yes! I wonder how accurate this is? Did this riot actually happen?
No idea.
I know there was some riots. Wasn’t a judge even pulled out of his home and tarred & feathered at one point? Can’t remember the exact details.
However I felt like I was watching a version of “Occupy Wall Street” instead of the beginnings of the American Revolution. It seems like they are trying to push the class warfare rich against poor thing and skipping over the meat of the cause of the Revolution.
Absolutely, the house was torched, but at the time its occupant, Thomas Hutchinson, was lieutenant Governor, and the man responsible was the leader of a Boston gang, Ebenezer Macintosh, who had been hired by Sam Adams to lead the demonstration so Adams could remain in the background. Also throughout the show absolutely no context was provided. What taxes were being protested? When was this happening. ? No reference to the Stamp Act, The Navigation Acts, the repeal of those acts, the creation of the Sons of Liberty. No reference! Finally Adams was nowhere near King Street when the Massacre occurred, let alone the leader of the riot and responsible for clubbing a redcoat into unconsciousness.. We actually know what happened because these people wrote down evertything in diaries and journals. You would get a better history lesson going on the tour of Sam Adams Brewery.