| James Otis, the pre-revolutionist Contributor(s): Ridpath, John Clark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1975957067 ISBN-13: 9781975957063 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Biography & Autobiography - Social Science | Slavery |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.44 lbs) 142 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Near the northeast corner of the old Common of Boston a section of ground was put apart long before the beginning of the eighteenth century to be a burying ground for some of the heroic dead of the city of the Puritans. For some quaint reason or caprice this acre of God was called "The Granary" and is so called to this day. Perhaps the name was given because the dead were here, garnered as grain from the reaping until the bins be opened at the last day's threshing when the chaff shall be driven from the wheat. Here the thoughtless throng looking through the iron railing may see the old weather-beaten and time-eaten slabs with their curious lettering which designate the spots where many of the men of the pre-revolutionary epoch were laid to their last repose. The word cemetery is from Greek and means the little place where I lie down. |