Attucks

• “Many query, "Why call themselves 'Massasoit Guards?' why not 'Attucks' Guards, 'after one of their own race, and the first martyr of American Independence, on the 5th of March, 1770?”

  The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans,

• “One of them, a former slave named Crispus Attucks, who had been quaffing drinks at the Royal Exchange, is widely thought to have been the one who clobbered the hapless British soldier.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “Textbooks like to make Attucks and the mob on King Street into allies of the Founding Fathers, and indeed, their actions led not only to the removal of the troops from Boston but also to increased militancy against the British that most historians agree was the beginning of the American Revolution.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “Â Three Americans died instantly, including Crispus Attucks, a mixed race sailor who is considered to be the first American casualty of the Revolutionary War.”

  Five Massacres That Happened In The U.S. | myFiveBest

• “In fact, one of the first to die in the cause that became the American Revolution was an escaped black slave named Crispus Attucks, one of five American protesters shot by British soldiers in the Colonial Era Boston Massacre.”

  Voice of America: 'For Love of Liberty' Recalls Black Heroes in US Military

• “Two major sources of eyewitness testimony about the Boston Massacre, both published in 1770, did not refer to Attucks as a "Negro," or "black" man.”

  AS SEEN ON TV: CRISPUS ATTUCKS

• “Little is known for certain about Attucks beyond his death in the conflict.”

  AS SEEN ON TV: CRISPUS ATTUCKS

• “The second source, "The Trial of William Wemms," referred to Attucks more than a dozen times as a “mulatto” or “molatto,” and once as an “Indian,” another as a “tall man,” and yet another as a “stout,” or muscular man.”

  AS SEEN ON TV: CRISPUS ATTUCKS

• “While 19th-century anti-slavery advocates later focused on Attucks' African heritage, Bostonians in 1770 considered him mixed-race.”

  AS SEEN ON TV: CRISPUS ATTUCKS

• “Crispus Attucks wrote on September 19, 2007 3: 18 PM:”

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