march 5, 1770 was the first person shot in the boston massacre.
march 5, 1770 was the first person shot in the boston massacre.
who was the first person shot in the boston massacre?
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crispus attucks (1723 – march 5, 1770) was an american stevedore of african and native american descent, widely regarded as the first person killed in the boston massacre and thus the first american killed in the american revolution. historians disagree on whether he was a free man or an escaped slave, but most agree that he was of wampanoag and african descent. two major sources of eyewitness testimony about the boston massacre published in 1770 did not refer to him as "black" nor as a "negro"; it appears that bostonians viewed him as being of mixed ethnicity. according to a contemporaneous account in the "pennsylvania gazette", he was a "mulattoe man, named crispus attucks, who was born in framingham, but lately belonged to new-providence, and was here in order to go for north carolina."
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the boston massacre, known to the british as the incident on king street, was a confrontation on march 5, 1770 in which british soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in boston. the event was heavily publicized by leading patriots such as paul revere and samuel adams. british troops had been stationed in the province of massachusetts bay since 1768 in order to support crown-appointed officials and to enforce unpopular parliamentary legislation.
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