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Crispus Attucks Illustration
The Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770

This print captures the events on King Street shortly after 9:00 P.M. on March 5, 1770. Crispus Attucks, part Native American and part African-American, is known as the "first martyr of the American Revolution". The print represents a very different version of the events that evening than the one depicted by Paul Revere in his engraving published within days of the incident.

   
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