Attucks, Crispus (1723?–1770), an American killed in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. Not much is known about Attucks except that he was of part black and part Indian ancestry and had been a merchant seaman. It is also believed that he was an escaped slave who had fled Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1750.
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