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Crispus Attucks
Dockworker; first casualty of the American Revolution
The first to fall for American liberty — and the last to be remembered for it.
The rise
Born around 1723, likely of African and Wampanoag descent, he escaped slavery and worked as a sailor and rope-maker in Boston. On 5 March 1770 he led a crowd that confronted British soldiers on King Street; the soldiers fired, and Attucks was the first killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre.