Crispus Attucks

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-	[[Category:Personages]]In addition to being a well-known associate of [[Guvernor Morris]] and [[Albert Kook]], Attucks has the benefit of having a thoroughly cool name.	+	[[Category:Personages]][[Image:Crispus_Attucks.jpg|thumb|"Some controversy remains over whether Attucks was a revolutionary leader or a rabble rouser, but it is possible that in that time, he was both."]]A well-known associate of [[Guvernor Morris]] and [[Albert Kook]]. He was caught in the crossfire in Boston on the night of March 5, 1770, when a lead musket ball deflected of another man and lodged in his belly. Morris and Kook were enraged by the incident, and it seems to have in some way hindered a delicate operation they were conducting out of Boston Harbor. Repeated references to the "Chinaman" have led many historians to the conclusion that Attucks was on some kind of opium-related business, but nothing has been conclusively demonstrated.
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	*[[Matt T]]		*[[Matt T]]

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A well-known associate of Guvernor Morris and Albert Kook. He was caught in the crossfire in Boston on the night of March 5, 1770, when a lead musket ball deflected of another man and lodged in his belly. Morris and Kook were enraged by the incident, and it seems to have in some way hindered a delicate operation they were conducting out of Boston Harbor. Repeated references to the "Chinaman" have led many historians to the conclusion that Attucks was on some kind of opium-related business, but nothing has been conclusively demonstrated.

See Also

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• Matt T