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5
Mart
1770

Boston Massacre becomes a flashpoint in imperial protest

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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

British soldiers

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British Army

Massachusetts colonists