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Glossary Term – Event

Crispus Attucks escaped

Crispus Attucks escaped from slavery in Framingham, Massachusetts, aboard a whaling ship.

Glossary Term – Event

Boston Massacre

Tensions between British troops and...

Glossary Term – Person

Crispus Attucks

Crispus Attucks (ca. 1723–1770) was one of the civilians killed by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre of 1770. Little is known about Attucks’ life before the Boston Massacre, but he was likely a fugitive slave of African American and American Indian heritage. He probably worked as a sailor and was certainly among the crowd who gathered on Boston’s King Street on March 5, 1770, to confront British soldiers stationed there.

Paul Revere, “The Bloody Massacre in King-Street, March 5, 1770.” Boston, 1770.

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Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre, 1770

By the beginning of 1770, there...