Connection to Black Communities
Attucks likely interacted with Bostonians of African descent who were pressing for their freedom before the Revolution.
Attucks likely interacted with Bostonians of African descent who were pressing for their freedom before the Revolution.
As a man of Native ancestry, Attucks would have had many reasons to resent both the colonists and the British.
Attucks belonged to a blended community created by the forces of colonialism, slavery and love.
Attucks’s views were likely shaped by his life as a mariner of African and Native descent living in British-occupied Boston.
A virtual exhibit that examines the memory of Crispus Attucks, a man of African & Native descent who was the first to die in the Boston Massacre.