Family Research - English, Scottish and Irish Genealogy

28/2/2006

Black History Month figure: Crispus Attucks

Facts: Attucks, of African and American Indian ancestry, was the first casualty of the Revolutionary War. He was a slave who had probably escaped his Framingham, Mass., master in 1750 to work on whaling ships out of Boston Harbor. On March 5, 1770, Samuel Adams persuaded sailors and dockworkers at the harbor to protest the presence of British troops. Attucks led 50 men in the march. British troops fired on the crowd, killing Attucks and four others in what became known as the Boston Massacre.
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