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Press Used As Weapon by Revolutionary Editor Isaiah Thomas
This sketch notes Isaiah Thomas as a pivotal colonial editor who used the Massachusetts Spy to advocate liberty. It details his bold front page Independence Day cartoon, Lexington eyewitness report, clashes with authorities, and later influence as a leading postwar publisher and author of a History of Printing in America.
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Zechariah Fowle
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Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania Gazette
Old North Church
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American Oracle of Liberty
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