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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.

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