Either john Adams or a soldier named Montgomery.
-Crispus Attucks -John Adams -British soldiers -Samuel Adams -Sons of Liberty
John Hancock High School
Crispus Attucks was killed during the Boston Massacre, and it the first casualty during the Revolution. Not a lot is known about Attucks' childhood, but experts believe he was born a slave. He was a mix of African and Native American, and his father was named John.
The four victims named in this primary source were John, Paul, George, and Ringo. They were part of the British rock band The Beatles.
Was he involved in trying to stage the slave uprising against the plantation/slave owners?Following in the footsteps of Chris( the slave who organized the greatest revolt against the white plantation owners)
"The Bloody Massacre," Paul Revere The poem is a part of the Revere print of that title. Where can I see it in easy to read print?
Jefferson
John Adams
You're thinking of Crispus Attucs. He was a sailor. He was shot with two other americans. Although there is some question as to whether or not he was the first one shot but he was the first one to die; he died instantly, the others died the next day or so. There is also some question as to why the British soldiers fired. The way it is told, the British soldiers were being taunted and eventually were found not guilty. Thier lawyer was John Adams, who eventually became Washington's vice-president and then later the second president of the United States. The event was depicted in a famous engraving by Paul Revere and this is said to have instigated the Untied States in going to war with England.
Crispus Attucks was biracial, sometimes called a 'Black Indian'. Contrary to popular belief Crispus Attucks was not simply black as people in his time and place defined it. Attucks was the product of the union of an African man who was an escaped slave and a woman of the Natick band of the Massachusett, Wampanoag Indians. By the one drop rule African Americans claim him as black. By the rules of matrilineal descent that the Indians of that region used, Attucks would be considered an Indian because he was the son of one of their women.
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."