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Feb 3, 2020 · Crispus Attucks, a multiracial man who had escaped slavery, is known as the first American colonist killed in the American Revolution.
Apr 2, 2014 · Crispus Attucks was an African American man killed during the Boston Massacre and believed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution.
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.
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.
Facts. Crispus Attucks was born circa 1723. His father, Prince, was from Africa and brought as a slave to America. His mother, Nancy, was a slave of Indian descent. Attucks was raised as a slave in Colonel Buckminster farm. He was sold to Deacon William Brown when he was 16 years old. He was 6 feet 2 inches tall.
Apr 17, 2024 · Crispus Attucks was an African-American that had been born into slavery. He escaped and went on to be a seaman and rope maker in colonial Boston. He was involved in a mob that accosted British regulars on March 5, 1770.
Abolitionists like William C. Nell and Frederick Douglass extolled Crispus Attucks as the first martyr in the cause of American liberty and used his memory to garner support to end slavery in America and attain equal rights for African Americans.
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