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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 · 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 ...
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. Updated: Mar 26, 2021. Photo: Archive...
March 5, 1770, Boston, Mass. [U.S.] 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. Although nothing is known definitively about his ancestry, his father is thought to be Prince Yonger, a ...
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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 · c. 1723–March 5, 1770. Crispus Attucks was the first person killed by British regulars at the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. Portrait of Crispus Attucks. 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.
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 ...
