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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 first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American 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.
Feb 3, 2020 · Crispus Attucks, a multiracial man who had escaped slavery, is known as the first American colonist killed in the American Revolution.
Apr 2, 2014 · Crispus Attucks was an African American man killed during the Boston Massacre and believed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution.
Oct 2, 2021 · Crispus Attucks, a sailor of mixed African and Indigenous ancestry, died in Boston on March 5, 1770 after British soldiers fired two musket balls into his chest. 1 His death and that of four other men at the hands of the 29 th Regiment became known as the Boston Massacre.
Sep 6, 2018 · The first person to die in the Boston Massacre was an African American sailor named Crispus Attucks. Not much is known about Crispus Attucks prior to his death in 1770, but his actions that day became a source of inspiration for both White and Black Americans for years to come.
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.
