Crispus Attucks, a sailor of African and Indigenous ancestry, was among five people killed by British soldiers. Later patriot memory made the event a symbol of liberty while often obscuring Attucks’s Black identity and the contradiction between revolutionary claims and slavery.
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Crispus Attucks was killed in the Boston Massacre.
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Later patriotic accounts often obscured his African and Indigenous ancestry.