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May 30, 2018 · First Martyr of Liberty examines how and why Crispus Attucks has been included in, or excluded from, Americans’ understandings of the Revolution and the nation over the past 250 years. Attucks’s story raises questions about who can claim to be a citizen, a patriot, a hero, an American.
- Stephen G. Hall
Mar 5, 2018 · Crispus Attucks is a name that twenty-first century American schoolchildren usually learn in their introduction to the American Revolution and its heroes. Attucks—a man of African and Native American descent—was the first American colonist to die in a confrontation with British troops at the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770.
Crispus Attucks (c. 1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent who is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution.
Jul 4, 2016 · Of those killed, Crispus Attucks was a runaway slave whose impulsive act that night wrote his name in the annuals of history as the first to fall, white or black, in the name of liberty. Crispus Attucks with Boston mob. Photo credit Crispus Attucks Museum.
Jul 20, 2017 · Of all the competing versions of Attucks circulating at that time, it was the taken-for-granted Revolutionary token that seemed most prominent in the nation’s collective memory; for many, he was a bland symbol of a romanticized American Revolution and an unthreatening black patriotism.
Feb 3, 2020 · Crispus Attucks, a multiracial man who had escaped slavery, is known as the first American colonist killed in the American Revolution.
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The book investigates how Crispus Attucks came to serve as a symbolic embodiment of black patriotism who achieved mythic significance in African Americans’ struggle to define their collective status as American citizens.
