A young man, unafraid of consequences, will end up being the first civilian shot and killed during the Boston Massacre, as well as the first casualty of the American Revolution. After British control over the colonies tightened, tensions escalated and Crispus Attucks found himself to be one of the few to be directly affected by this worsening situation. Attucks was a rope maker and seaman along with many others and lived with the constant threat of being forced into the British navy. On March 2 in 1770 a fight erupted between three British soldiers and a group of rope makers, which set the stage for a future confrontation and sparked the result of the Boston Massacre. Three days later a fight broke out again when a British soldier entered a …show more content…
Attucks was born into slavery and is believed to be the son of a slave named Prince Yonger and a Natick Indian named Nancy Attucks, and may have had an older sister named Phebe. Attucks managed to escape the bonds of slavery around the year 1750 and spent the next two decades finding work as a rope maker as well as staying on trading and whaling ships coming in and out of Boston. Growing up he showed an early skill for buying and trading goods which would later benefit him in his job on trading ships. It was also wildly known that he feared no consequences, and hence was never afraid of acting on what he believed was right and true within his own morals and ethics. Crispus Attucks contribution to history is wildly over looked, but he is in fact one of the most important people in African American history, not just for what he did for his race, but for oppressed people everywhere. He showed moral courage and represented the struggle and heroism of an African American searching for freedom. Even after his death his legacy lived on as colonists continued to break free from England. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. even admired Attucks courage and his defining role in American