Crispus Attucks
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| - | [[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. | + | [[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 off another man's shoulder lodged in his belly, in an incident insurgent propagandists labeled the "Boston Massacre." 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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