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If you like MrNussbaum. Advertise HERE! LogIn to. Remove ads. Crispus Attucks Biography. This is a complete biography of Crispus Attucks, the first person killed in the American Revolution. Crispus Attucks Listen. The victims were presented collectively as presumably white citizens struck down by a tyrannical standing army. After independence was achieved, Attucks and the other victims no longer were needed to serve that purpose.
The Boston Massacre retained its place in the story of the Revolution, but none of the victims attracted public notice for the next half-century. As the nation began to pay greater attention to Revolutionary heroes after the s, several popular histories told the story of the Massacre and identified Attucks racially for the first time since the trial.
But this public attention aroused the interest of African-American activists who were beginning to forge a more organized biracial antislavery movement. Black abolitionist William C. African-Americans continued to commemorate him, fabricating a set of convenient fictions that highlighted his patriotism and burning desire for freedom. At times whites and blacks came together to laud Attucks, as when a monument was erected in Boston in and when Massachusetts designated March 5 as Crispus Attucks Day, an official state holiday, in There is no evidence for any of these assertions.
Thanks to the broadening post-WWII civil rights movement, by the early s, Attucks finally began to reappear in mainstream textbooks, typically as a token acknowledgment of black participation in the Revolution, a pattern that accelerated with the s enthusiasm for all things bicentennial. Historian Thomas A. Sounds like a thug to me. And black lives matter.
Resource Bank Contents. In , Crispus Attucks, a black man, became the first casualty of the American Revolution when he was shot and killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre.
Although Attucks was credited as the leader and instigator of the event, debate raged for over as century as to whether he was a hero and a patriot, or a rabble-rousing villain. In the murder trial of the soldiers who fired the fatal shots, John Adams, serving as a lawyer for the crown, reviled the "mad behavior" of Attucks, "whose very looks was enough to terrify any person.
As a slave in Framingham, he had been known for his skill in buying and selling cattle. Brown offered a reward for the man's return, and ended with the following admonition: "And all Matters of Vessels and others, are hereby cautioned against concealing or carrying off said Servant on Penalty of Law.
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