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Flavius Julius Crispus (/ ˈkrɪspəs /; c. 300 – 326) was the eldest son of the Roman emperor Constantine I, as well as his junior colleague (caesar) from March 317 until his execution by his father in 326.
Jan 4, 2022 · Crispus was a leader of the synagogue in Corinth, Greece (Acts 18:8). He was a Jewish religious leader but became a believer in Jesus after Paul shared the gospel with the Corinthians. Crispus’s conversion happened during Paul’s second missionary journey.
Crispus (born c. 305—died 326, Pola, Venetia) was the eldest son of Constantine the Great who was executed under mysterious circumstances on his father’s orders. Crispus’s mother, Minerva (or Minervina), was divorced by Constantine in 307.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- He Was Multiracial.
- He Had Escaped Slavery.
- He Was A Seaman.
- He Was A Big Man.
- He Was Angry at The British Over Competition For work.
- He Was A Tough, Fearless Street Fighter.
- He Was Shot Twice in The Chest.
- He Was Honored as A Hero After death.
According to theNew England Historical Society, Attucks is believed to have been born sometime around 1723 in the vicinity of Framingham, Massachusetts, possibly in Natick, a“praying Indian town” established to provide a safe haven where local natives who had been converted to Christianity could live without fear of being attacked by colonists or o...
Attucks seems to have spent most of his early life enslaved by a man named William Browne in Framingham. But when he was 27, Attucks ran away. In anewspaper advertisement published in 1750, Browne announced the escape of a “Molatto fellow” named Crispus, and described him as 6'2" with short, curly hair. He was also apparentlyknock-kneed. Attucks wa...
After his escape, Attucks made his way to Boston, where according to the New England Historical Society, he became a sailor, one of the few trades open to a non-white person. (Around the time of the American Revolution, one-fifth of the 100,000 sailors employed on American ships were African American.) Attucks worked on whaling ships, and when he w...
Attucks was six inches taller than theaverage American man of the Revolutionary War era, and testimony at the trial of the British soldiers indicted for his death depicted him as having a robust physique. John Adams, the future U.S. president who acted as one of the soldiers’ defense attorneys, used Attucks’ musculature—and his mixed-race lineage—i...
As Douglas R. Egerton writes in his bookDeath Or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America, Great Britain paid its soldiers so poorly that many of them found it necessary to take part-time jobs when they were off-duty. Competition from the influx of troops threatened to depress the wages of American workers such as Attucks. Additionally,...
According to testimony at the soldiers’ trial, Attucks was at the front of the mob that went to confront the British soldiers. His brazen defiance took considerable courage, since he had escaped slavery, he faced the risk of being arrested and returned to servitude. “The prudent thing to do for a man like Attucks was to back away from that confront...
One of the musket balls that hit Attucks apparently didn’t do too much damage, but the other, which tore an inch-wide hole in his chest, inflicted lethal injuries, according to thetranscript of the British soldiers’ trial. Acontemporary newspaper accountdescribed the shot as “goring the right side of his lungs, and a great part of the liver most ho...
In death, Attucks was afforded honors that no person of color—particularly one who had escaped slavery—probably had ever received before in America. As Egerton notes, Samuel Adamsorganized a procession to transport Attucks’ casket to Boston’s Faneuil Hall, where Attucks lay in state for three days before the victims’ public funeral. According to hi...
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.
CRISPUS. kris'-pus (Krispos, "curled"): One of the small number baptized by Paul among the Corinthian Christians (1 Corinthians 1:14). He had been ruler of the Jewish synagogue, but he "believed in the Lord with all his house"; and, following Paul, withdrew from the synagogue (Acts 18:7,8).
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Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, became one of his first converts, and many others believed and were baptized, Acts 18:1-8. Encouraged by a vision, he now ...
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