DATE OF BIRTH: 1723
PLACE OF BIRTH: Framingham, Massachusetts
OCCUPATION: Escaped slave working as seaman/dockman/rope maker.
EARLY LIFE: Crispus Attucks was born into slavery, son of Prince Yonger and Nancy Attucks (a Natick Indian). He was talented in trading, and escaped from his master, William Brown, to seek his own fortune in trading, rope making, and other jobs.
SIGNIFICANCE: Crispus Attucks is a folk hero, famous for dying in the Boston Massacre patriotically. There is still debate whether Attucks died heroically, or whether he was just creating a ruckus. Some say he didn't initiate the fight, and was 'leaning on a stick' when the fighting broke out.
OTHER:
-Attucks was the first of four other men to die in the Boston Massacre.
-In the mid-nineteenth hundreds, African- American Bostonians celebrated 'Crispus Attucks Day' on March 5. The holiday was a reminder of Dred Scott vs. Sanford, which was a supreme court decision that declared African Americans non-citizens. Despite this, Attucks still died for America.
-Attucks was popularly known as a martyr, having died even when born under the oppressive system of African slavery.
SUMMARY:
Crispus Attucks was an African American slave who escaped to work on his own. When pursuing his dreams, conflict arose when the job he'd chosen contained work mainly on a dock- which is where a lot of British soldiers often stood. Crispus fought bravely at the Boston Massacre, which was a skirmish between soldiers and angry sailors that ignited the American Revolution. He is remembered as the first of five casualties to stand up for the country he loved.
PLACE OF BIRTH: Framingham, Massachusetts
OCCUPATION: Escaped slave working as seaman/dockman/rope maker.
EARLY LIFE: Crispus Attucks was born into slavery, son of Prince Yonger and Nancy Attucks (a Natick Indian). He was talented in trading, and escaped from his master, William Brown, to seek his own fortune in trading, rope making, and other jobs.
SIGNIFICANCE: Crispus Attucks is a folk hero, famous for dying in the Boston Massacre patriotically. There is still debate whether Attucks died heroically, or whether he was just creating a ruckus. Some say he didn't initiate the fight, and was 'leaning on a stick' when the fighting broke out.
OTHER:
-Attucks was the first of four other men to die in the Boston Massacre.
-In the mid-nineteenth hundreds, African- American Bostonians celebrated 'Crispus Attucks Day' on March 5. The holiday was a reminder of Dred Scott vs. Sanford, which was a supreme court decision that declared African Americans non-citizens. Despite this, Attucks still died for America.
-Attucks was popularly known as a martyr, having died even when born under the oppressive system of African slavery.
SUMMARY:
Crispus Attucks was an African American slave who escaped to work on his own. When pursuing his dreams, conflict arose when the job he'd chosen contained work mainly on a dock- which is where a lot of British soldiers often stood. Crispus fought bravely at the Boston Massacre, which was a skirmish between soldiers and angry sailors that ignited the American Revolution. He is remembered as the first of five casualties to stand up for the country he loved.