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Crispus Attucks
(1723-1770)
Who Was Crispus Attucks?
Crispus Attucks' father was likely an enslaved person and his mother a Natick Indian.
All that is definitely known about Attucks is that he was the first to fall during the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. In 1888, the Crispus Attucks monument was unveiled in Boston Common.
Early Life
Born into slavery around 1723, Attucks was believed to be the son of Prince Yonger, a enslaved person shipped to America from Africa, and Nancy Attucks, a Natick Indian.
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Little is known about Attucks' life or his family, who reputedly resided in a town just outside of Boston.
What has been pieced together paints a picture of a young man who showed an early skill for buying and trading goods.
He seemed unafraid of the consequences of escaping the bonds of slavery. Historians have theorized that Attucks was the focus of an advertisement in a 1750 edition of the Boston Gazette in which a white landowner offered to pay 10 pounds for the ret