Crispus Attucks

CTL-E-1570 · Person · other · 1770s

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Sailor and stevedore of African and Native American descent; first person killed in the Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770); 19th-century abolitionist icon.

The record

Also known as: Crispas

Relationships

Boston Massacre — initiated
Attucks was at the forefront of the crowd confronting British soldiers on King Street on the night of March 5, 1770.
Boston, Massachusetts — based in
Attucks worked the Boston docks as a sailor and stevedore.
John Adams — related to
John Adams defended the British soldiers tried for the Boston Massacre, in which Attucks was the first killed.
William Cooper Nell — related to
William Cooper Nell profiled Attucks in The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution (1855) and campaigned for the Boston Massacre monument.

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