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[Iggy_Bot]

a black man Crispus Attucks

[joseywalestx]

here is your answer and he was killed by the eqivalent of the libs today

Some historians consider the escaped slave, Crispus Attucks, the first casualty of the American Revolution. He was killed in the "Boston Massacre," March 5, 1770. A total of five men were killed at that "event." Four died at the site, one died several days later.

MrV

11 days before the Bostom Massacre, 12 Year old Christopher Snider. Below are the facts and the headstone engraving.

Also buried at the Old Granary Burial Ground is Christopher Snider, a 12-year-old boy who may be considered the first martyr of the American Revolution.

Christopher was shot to death by Ebenezer Richardson, a Loyalist informer, eleven days before the Boston Massacre, which claimed the lives of Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, and Patrick Carr, all of whom were laid to rest in the Granary Burial Ground.

While only five people were actually killed during the Boston Massacre, it marked the beginning of the end of British rule over the American colonies.

Christopher Snider was buried with the victims of the Boston Massacre, and they share a headstone.

A velvet pall was placed on Snider's coffin, which read:

The serpent is lurking in the grass.
The fatal dart is thorwn.
Innocence is nowhere safe.

The headstone commemorating the burial place of the victims of the Boston Massacre, including Christopher Snider, who died five days previous, reads as follows:

The Remains of
Samuel Gray
Samuel Maverick
James Caldwell
Crispus Attucks
and
Patrick Carr
Victims of the Boston Massacre
March 5th, 1770
Were here interred by order of the
Town of Boston

Here also lies buried the body of
Christopher Snider
Aged 12 years,
Killed February 22nd, 1770.
The innocent, first victim of the
struggles between the Colonists and
the Crown, which resulted in
INDEPENDENCE