What heritage is crispus attucks

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What heritage is crispus attucks

Answer 1

Crispus Attucks

1723?-1770

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Introduction

Historian George W. Williams in History of the ***** Race in America described the Boston Massacre as "the bloody drama that opened the most eventful and thrilling chapter in American history." Neither a soldier nor a leading town citizen proved the hero of that pre-Revolutionary War struggle. Instead, the first of five men to die in the massacre was a runaway slave turned sailor, Crispus Attucks. His death has forever linked his name with the cause of freedom.

Narrative Essay

Historians know little about Attucks, and they have constructed accounts of his life more from speculation than facts. Most documents described his ancestry as African and American Indian. His father, Prince Yonger, is thought to have been a slave brought to America from Africa and that his mother, Nancy Attucks, was a Natick Indian. Researcher Bill Belton identified Attucks as a direct descendent of John Attucks, an Indian executed for treason in 1676 during the King Philip War. The family, which may have included an older sister named Phebe, lived in Framingham, Massachusetts.

If you want more information about this man, all you need to do is type his name in any search box.  I pulled up quite a few entries about this person. I hope it helps you!

Answer 2

Little definite is known of Crispus Attucks (abt. 1723-1770) other than that he was one of five colonists killed in the first skirmish between disgruntled American colonists and British soldiers, and that Sam Adams made Attucks the first martyr of the American Revolution. Fragmentary evidence exists, however, that the hero of the "Boston Massacre" (or the instigator this clash between British troops and a New England mob, depending on one's point-of-view)  was of African and Native American ancestry.

Attucks' father was a first-generation slave from Africa, and his mother, Nancy Attucks, a Nantucket Indian.  Some historians theorize that the surname "Attucks" is an Anglicization of the Wompanoak word for "deer". Attucks also apparently ran away from slavery and became a sailor.  At the time of his death, he was a dock worker.

Answer 3

Hi Herman,

Like I wrote to you - Google him. You will find his father was a slave, his mother is unknown but may have been an Indian, his owner described him as a mulatto, and the mists of time have blurred his exact heritage.