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No matter what actually happened, the soldiers soon shot into the crowd, leaving Crispus Attucks in the gutter. Robert Goddard, a bystander, helped Crispus Attucks soon after. He “went and helped the mulatto man, who was shot, into Mr. Stone house. After we got him in there, I saw him give one gasp. I then opened his breast, and saw two holes, one in each breast, where the balls had entered.” These were the last moments of Crispus Attucks.
This engraving by Paul Revere is the clearest way to understand how Whig leaders wanted what had happened on King Street to be seen outside of Boston: A volley being shot into an innocent crowd of white Bostonians of the better sort. As a “Bloody Massacre in King Street.” This image remains the most iconic depiction of the incident as we know it today and still informs the popular memory of it. The real crowd, the real agency behind the action, has been lost to many.
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Historians know very little about the life of Crispus Attucks. Like many minorities in colonial America, there are only fragmentary sources that can tell us a thing or two about the most rudimentary details about their lives. Crispus Attucks is no exception, despite his now well known participation in one of the most high profile incidents leading up to the American War of Independence.
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