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To: Verginius Rufus
I think a black guy died in the "Boston Massacre".

As for slaves, I think Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" did a Bicentennial era thread on a Massachusettsan neglecting to tell his slave that slavery was abolished.

Must have come across some anti Harvard/Cambridge stuff that included Affleck's ancestors while at studying at Yale.

50 posted on 04/17/2015 6:11:51 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

Crispus Attucks was one of the colonists killed in the Boston Massacre. He was black or part black/part Native American, but I don’t think he was a slave. One of the militia men wounded in the battle of Lexington on April 19, 1775, was Prince Estabrook, a slave born about 1741, who was later emancipated by his owner.


79 posted on 04/17/2015 7:30:29 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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