Slavery In 1770-1870 Summary

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~Slavery in 1770-1870’s~

The first runaway slave of African and Indian Crispus Attucks became the first casualty if the American Revolution in 1770. Crispus is A Hero of the Boston Massacre. Born into slavery, Crispus Attucks was the son of Prince Younger, a slave shipped to America from Africa, and Nancy Attucks, a Natick Indian. Little is known about Attucks's life, or his family, who resided in Framingham, Massachusetts, just outside Boston.

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Boston’s patriots led by Sam Adams, instantly labeled the assault. All eight soldiers were jailed and on trial for murder. Crispus Attucks was shot and killed by William Warren, he fired 2 bullets which went straight in Attucks chest. William Warren didn’t get punished for this incident. In the murder trial of the soldiers who killed five citizens. John Adams yelled “Bad behavior” of Attucks. he continued “Whose very looks was enough to terrify any person” Twenty years earlier before all this happened William Brown placed an advertisement describing Crispus. William Warren was already looking for him and because he was a runaway slave they killed him. On the fifth night of March, in Boston with arms of force one of them assaulted Crispus Attucks. With a certain handgun William Warren charged with gunpowder and two bullets flew towards Crispus allowing one to hit him on his right breast and the other one a little below the left pap of him. Giving Crispus one mortal wound the depth of six inches. Warren assaulted Crispus and then shot him. I chose Crispus Attucks because i never heard of him and i needed something different other then Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks

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