Who is Crispus Attucks?
Crispus Attucks (1723 – 1770) went down in history as the first black man to fight for the independence of America from the hands of the British. Little is known of this man, except for one certainty – that he led without fear the fateful event known as The Boston Massacre on 5 March 1770. This event is thought of by many as the backbone of the American Revolution, which paved the way for an independent America. Attucks was born in 1723 in Framingham, Massachusetts to parents who were slaves belonging to Colonel Buckminster. Attucks had two siblings, an older sister named Phebe and a younger brother who died from a fever when Attucks was seven years old. Attucks and his father toiled in the vast plantation fields and farms, while his mother and sister cleaned the Colonel’s house. They received no education, because the Colonel feared that literacy would eventually lead to rebellion. Attucks abhorred the fact that he was a slave. He began shirking his daily duties, daydreaming instead o
Little is known about the early years of Crispus Attucks. He was born a slave around 1723 probably in the colony of Massachusetts. His father, Prince Yonger, was an African and his mother, Nancy Attucks, was an Indian and possible descendant of John Attucks, a member of the Natick Indian tribe. John Attucks was executed for treason in 1676 during the King Philip War. The word “attuck” in the Natick language means deer. In 1750, Crispus was a slave of William Brown of Framingham. Crispus was an expert trader of horses and cattle and did business with white men. He kept the money he made and tried to buy his freedom from his owner, William Brown. However, his owner refused to purchase his freedom because of Crispus’ value to him. Because Crispus wanted his freedom, he ran away from his owner.
C4I.ORG” –> From: InfoSec News (isnC4I.ORG) Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 – 18:53:09 CST • Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1601 02.05.2001 The mastermind behind UrbanExpose, an irrevcerent Web site covering hip-hop culture and media, has long been a mystery. Julian Dibbell unmasks the man, and his message. AS MEDIA MYSTERIES GO, the UrbanExpos affair probably won’t rate too many pages in the history books. It’s not “Who shot J.R.?” It’s not “Who wrote Primary Colors?” It’s not even “How much longer can I be expected to care what the fuck Ginger is?” Still, over the last half year it has vexed enough of the East Coast new-media-world’s players, player-haters, and straight-up yentas to qualify for at least a footnote. The mystery: Who is the wig-wearing muckraker behind the Web’s premier black-media-biz gossip site, UrbanExpos? Who is the man signing his Negro-revolutionary pseudonym to all those acid-tongued diss
http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1601 02.05.2001 The mastermind behind UrbanExpose, an irrevcerent Web site covering hip-hop culture and media, has long been a mystery. Julian Dibbell unmasks the man, and his message. AS MEDIA MYSTERIES GO, the UrbanExpos affair probably won’t rate too many pages in the history books. It’s not “Who shot J.R.?” It’s not “Who wrote Primary Colors?” It’s not even “How much longer can I be expected to care what the fuck Ginger is?” Still, over the last half year it has vexed enough of the East Coast new-media-world’s players, player-haters, and straight-up yentas to qualify for at least a footnote. The mystery: Who is the wig-wearing muckraker behind the Web’s premier black-media-biz gossip site, UrbanExpos? Who is the man signing his Negro-revolutionary pseudonym to all those acid-tongued dissections of the Web portals, cable channels, and niche magazines that work the melanin-fortified content space coyly known as “urban”? Who, in short
