Attucks

[ at-uhks ]

noun

1. Cris·pus [kris, -p, uh, s], 1723?–70, American patriot, sailor of African and American Indian ancestry, killed in the Boston Massacre.

Example Sentences

Attucks was killed by Montgomery, one of Captain Preston's soldiers.

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Attucks was a resident of Framingham, and there is some difference of opinion as to whether he was a mulatto or half-breed Indian.

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The mulatto Attucks was one of the victims of the Boston Massacre, and was buried with honor among the "martyrs of liberty."

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"That may be a longer time than he thinks for," Attucks, a mulatto who was well known to all, replied.

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"I want you fellows to come with Attucks and me," the barber's apprentice said, in a peremptory tone.

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