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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
