feb 14, 1773 - Boston Massacre (1773): Crispus Attucks killed by British Forces

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"Crispus Attucks is killed by British forces during the Boston Massacre, becoming one of the first colonists to die in the American war for independence.

Attucks, a dockworker and merchant seaman, was an African American who may have been an escaped slave or a freeman."

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https://www.nationalgeographic.org/interactive/slavery-united-states/

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