"Political electricity; or, an historical & prophetical print in the year 1770," an engraving from a broadsheet published in London, showing industrious American colonists at work in New England. The image was intended to warn the British goverment that

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"Political electricity; or, an historical & prophetical print in the year 1770," an engraving from a broadsheet published in London, showing industrious American colonists at work in New England. The image was intended to warn the British goverment that their policies in America could end in a loss of the American colonies. "Boston" is here depicted as a large city as thriving as London, essentially eclipsing it.

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Photo credit: © Photo Researchers / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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