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12016-08-20T13:26:20-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a720012plain3190002016-08-20T17:10:50-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aIn December 1763, a mob massacred nearly two dozen Christianized Indians in the Pennsylvania backcountry. The scale of the attack was enhanced only by its brutality: in their march from Conestoga Manor to Philadelphia, these so-called “Paxton boys,” torched Indian huts, threatened settlers, and scalped, dismembered, and mutilated the bodies of the Conestoga.
While historians have examined the Paxton Boys’ riots, the ensuing crisis of governance—waged in Pennsylvania’s first major pamphlet war—has largely escaped the study of literary scholars and critical theorists. To support that effort, Digital Paxton aggregates, annotates, and contextualize materials available at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania related to the riots and pamphlet war.
Follow this path for an overview of the Paxton riots, the pamphlet war, and the project.