Crispus Attucks: The Revolutionary War

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Crispus Attucks: The Revolutionary War

Crispus Attucks was the first man to fall in the American Revolution. Crispus Attucks is identified as the first person killed in the name of freedom during what has come to be known as the Boston Massacre. Many people believe that he was the same man who in 1750 was advertised as a runaway slave. It is said that he ran away from his master to become a seamen. There is no proof that says that it isn't true as well as there is no proof that says that it is. He was a stranger to Boston, he was leading a march against the Townshend Act's when the massacre occurred. Many people speculate why was he the first to fall. Was he the first to die because he was black or because he gave the British soldiers a reason to fire upon him. It is said that the night before the massacre was faced with a confrontation with a British soldier and that he was very upset because of it. Then the next day he released his anger upon the other soldier by beating one of them with a wooden club. So they were forced to gun him down. On the other hand there is the possibility that he was the first to die because he was black. Man - the Bntish soldiers were scared upon seeing a black man leading a protest that they just felt that the only thing to do was to shoot him down. No one really knows why he was the first to die, maybe it was just an accident or was it. Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Samuel Gray and Patrick Carr also died in the so called "Incident" which became known as the Boston Massacre.
The Boston Gazette and the Country Journal were running the story all along their newspaper. They explained in great detail about what happened in that terrible incident. The Gazette said this, "The body of the slain Crispus Attucks lay in state in Fanueil Hall until, along with three other victims of the Boston Massacre, he was entombed in a common sepulcher as thousands bared their heads at the cemetery." This certainly affecte...