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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.
Feb 3, 2020 · Five colonists, including a Black man named Crispus Attucks, were killed. The event, which became known as the Boston Massacre, helped fuel the outrage against British rule—and spurred on the...
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.
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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.
Apr 17, 2024 · Portrait of Crispus Attucks. Crispus Attucks was the first person killed by British regulars at the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. Crispus Attucks was an African-American that had been born into slavery.
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.
