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Crispus Attucks

Revolutionary War Figure / Slave

Date Of Birth:

c. 1723

Date Of Death:

5 March 1770

shot to death

Best Known As:

The African-American killed in the Boston Massacre

Crispus Attucks is remembered as the first American to die in the colonists fight for freedom from Britain. Crispus Attucks was an escaped slave of African and Native American descent, but not