Revolutionary Citizens: African Americans 1776-1804

by Daniel C. Littlefield

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 as the first to defy, and the first to die in the cause of colonial liberty that went down in history as the Boston Massacre. When the American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195087151
• ISBN13: 9780195087154
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12