Who is Cripus Attucks?
Crispus Attucks
(b. circa 1723; d.
1770)
Death during Boston
Massacre
Runaway slave turned
sailor
African and Natick
Indian
Remembered as the "First
to die in the American Revolution,"
A poet, John Boyle O
Reilly, wrote of Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre
"And honor to Crispus
Attucks,
who was leader and voice
that day;
The first to defy
and the first to die,
with Maverick, Carr, and
Gray.
It riot or revolution,
or mob or crowd as you
may,
such deaths have been
seeds of nations,
such lives shall be
honored for ay."