African Americans 1776-1804
by
Daniel C. Littlefield
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 1997
It is not entirely clear who provoked the British musket fire at the Custom House in Boston on March 5, 1770, but the volley wounded eight men and killed five. Crispus Attucks, a tall, young mulatto, was one of the men who died in the confrontation. He would later become a revolutionary hero, celebrated...