THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
BOSTON MASSACRE DECLARATORY TOWNSHEND ACTS
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A runaway slave killed in the Boston Massacre
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A private in the British army
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The judge in the Boston Massacre trial
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The first British soldier to shoot a colonist
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The captain in charge of the British soldiers
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Detailed explanation-1: -Crispus Attucks, a multiracial man who had escaped slavery, is known as the first American colonist killed in the American Revolution. On the evening of March 5, 1770, British troops fired into a crowd of angry American colonists in Boston who had taunted and violently harassed them.
Detailed explanation-2: -Crispus Attucks was born around 1723 in Framingham, Massachusetts. In 1750, Crispus was believed to be a runaway that a slave master had put out an advertisement for to return to Framingham. However, he managed to escape slavery, spending the next two decades on trading ships and whaling vessels.
Detailed explanation-3: -Early life and ethnic origins. Attucks was born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Town histories of Framingham written in 1847 and 1887 describe him as a slave of Deacon William Brown, though it is unclear whether Brown was his original owner.