Did Crispus Attucks ever have a quote?
He is not famous for any quote Little is known about Crispus Attucks, except that he was an escaped slave. It is believed that he was of African and Natick or Nantucket Indian descent. Historians also believe that he was the same escaped slave that had been referred to by William Brown in the Boston Gazette and Weekly Journal twenty years before the Boston Massacre. According to the advertisement, Attucks was a 27 year old mulatto named Crispus. The advertisement also offered a reward for his return and cautioned seamen to refrain from assisting in his escape. Seamen, however, did not adhere to Brown’s caution. From the time of Attucks’ escape and until his death, he worked as a Boston sailor on a whaling crew and as a rope maker. Attucks is Killed in the Boston Massacre Prior to the Boston Massacre, tension between the Boston laborers and the British troops, who often worked part-time for lower wages, was high. On March 2, 1770, with anxiety high, an altercation occurred between rope
