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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 ...
Crispus Attucks is considered to be the first Black Patriot because he was killed in the Boston Massacre. Attucks was commemorated by his fellow Bostonians as a martyr for freedom. Attucks was a whaler who was believed to be of mixed Native American and African ancestry, born in or around Framingham, Massachusetts. [3]
It shows five men, Crispus Attucks, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Samuel Gray, and Patrick Carr, slain by the British soldiers in front of the Massachusetts State House." [1] These deaths took place on March 5, 1770. Crispus Attucks was a freed African American who was the first to die in the line of fire between the British and the colonist.
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Engraving of Crispus Attucks being shot during the Boston Massacre. (John Bufford after William L. Champey, c. 1856) [10] Prior to the revolution, many free African Americans supported the anti-British cause, most famously Crispus Attucks, believed to be the first person killed at the Boston Massacre.
March 5 – Crispus Attucks is among the five men killed by a detachment of the 29th Regiment of Foot in the Boston Massacre, a precursor to the American Revolution. [22] [23] 1773. Phillis Wheatley has her book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral published. [24] 1774
Crispus Attucks was an iconic patriot. Engaging in a protest in 1770, he was shot by royal soldiers in the Boston Massacre.. African Americans, both as slaves and freemen, served on both sides of the Revolutionary War.
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