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  2. Crispus Attucks (born 1723?—died March 5, 1770, Boston, Mass. [U.S.]) was an American hero, martyr of the Boston Massacre. Attucks’s life prior to the day of his death is still shrouded in mystery.

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  3. Crispus Attucks (c. 1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent who is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution.

    • Whaler, sailor, stevedore
    • Death in the Boston Massacre
    • March 5, 1770 (approximately aged 47), Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British America
  4. Feb 3, 2020 · Crispus Attucks, a multiracial man who had escaped slavery, is known as the first American colonist killed in the American Revolution. By: Patrick J. Kiger Updated: August 9, 2023 | Original...

  5. Feb 15, 2023 · Crispus Attucks has been immortalized as the first casualty of the American Revolutionary War and the first African American hero. He was in the front line of a group 50 patriots defying British troops when suddenly shots were fired.

  6. Title Sailor. War & Affiliation Revolutionary War / Patriot. Date of Birth - Death c. 1723 - March 5, 1770. In his seminal book, "Why We Can’t Wait," the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote about the inspired life of Crispus Attucks, saying, “He is one of the most important figures in African-American history, not for what he did for ...

  7. Oct 2, 2021 · Crispus Attucks, a sailor of mixed African and Indigenous ancestry, died in Boston on March 5, 1770 after British soldiers fired two musket balls into his chest. 1 His death and that of four other men at the hands of the 29 th Regiment became known as the Boston Massacre. Death instantly transformed Attucks from an anonymous sailor into a ...

  8. Many years after the Revolutionary War ended, in the mid-1800s, people began to look at the Boston Massacre as the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Black abolitionists began to start talking more about Crispus Attucks, but this time they celebrated him as the first martyr of the Revolution.

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