Crispus Attucks is considered to be the first Black Patriot because he was killed in the Boston Massacre . Attucks was commemorated by his fellow Bostonians as a martyr for freedom . Of mixed Native American and African ancestry , he was a fugitive slave who had escaped in 1750 from a farm in Framingham , Massachusetts . His death in the Boston Massacre is considered to be the first Patriot fatality of the war
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre
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