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Crispus Attucks (Framingham, 1723 circa – Boston, 5 marzo 1770) è stato un patriota statunitense. Fu il primo di cinque persone uccise nel massacro di Boston nel Massachusetts e l'unica vittima il cui nome viene comunemente ricordato.
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.
3 feb 2020 · Crispus Attucks, a multiracial man who had escaped slavery, is known as the first American colonist killed in 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
2 apr 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.), American patriot and martyr of the Boston Massacre. His early life is unclear, but he was probably a runaway slave of African and Natick Indian ancestry, and he may have served on whaling ships.
