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Crispus Attucks, half Natick
Indian and half African American, 6 feet, 2 inches tall (quite a
height for that period) was a runaway slave from Framingham, Mass.
He was a mariner who went by the name of Michael Johnson. Until shot
down, Attucks led the charges against the troops in front of the
British Coffee House--the episode known as the "Boston
Massacre." The name Attucks was the word for "deer"
in the Natick language.
Colored Patriots of the
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