The Role Of Crispus Attucks In The Boston Massacre

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Crispus Attucks is often only remembered for being the first to die in the Boston Massacre. However, if you look deeper into his life story, there is so much more than the common man knows. Including the fact that he escaped slavery, found work as a rope maker and was considered the first death of the American Revolution. (Biography.com)

When Attucks was 16 years old he was sold to Deacon William Brown. Eleven years later he escaped slavery on September 30, 1750. "As a ran-away slave he used the alias Michael Johnson." (Crispusattucksmuseum) For ten years he worked in a whaler, and then became a sea merchant for another ten years, while continuing to make ropes on the side.

The slave keeper tried finding him, and put up signs stating "Ran