Posted on 05/29/2017 8:09:56 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
As we remember our brothers and sisters who have sacrificed and continue to sacrifice so we can have Liberty, let us also remember those that history denies their due glory. How many know that the first man to die in the Revolutionary War was a black man named Crispus Attucks? Crispus Attucks was freed slave who had become a whaler for the merchant marines. Here is a poem written about Attucks by John Boyle ORiley:
(Excerpt) Read more at krisannehall.com ...
Honor to Crispus Attucks, who was leader and voice that day;
The first to defy, and the first to die, with Maverick, Carr, and Gray;
Call it riot or revolution, his hand first clenched at the crown;
His feet were the first in perilous place to pull the Kings flag down;
His breast was the first one rent apart that libertys stream might flow;
For our freedom now and forever, his head was first laid low.
Call it riot or revolution, or mob or crowd, as you may,
Such deaths have been seed of nations, such lives shall be honored for aye.
hell of an article. thank you.
Don’t thank me, thank KrisAnne Hall. This is posted on her FB page.
What about Ned Hector, who was a freed slave and fought in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown? When his military unit was being defeated and the order to retreat was given, he refused to retreat. He said, The enemy shall have not my team. I will save the horses or perish myself! History is full of brave men such as these. Many slaves were made freemen because they wanted to fight for liberty. One such man was Peter Salem. Salem fought at the battle of Bunker Hill where he is remembered for shooting and killing British Major John Pitcairn. Many believe if it had not been for Peter Salem, Pitcairns troops would have won that battle. Because of his bravery, Salem was honored and introduced to General George Washington as a great hero for liberty. As a matter of fact, there were battalions of freed slaves who fought for OUR liberty in the Revolutionary War. George Middleton was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War and led the Bucks of America, a battalion of freed slaves dedicated to the cause of liberty. Even after the war, Middleton would continue to fight through the organization he founded in 1796 called, the African Benevolent Society. This organization provided aid to widows and orphans of the Revolutionary War. Who better to stand for Liberty than men who had been slaves and knew the value of Liberty? They believed so greatly that all men deserved to be free from tyranny that many of these men would give their ONLY free breath so WE could be free. They were willing to die for something they would never even taste. How do WE repay their ultimate sacrifice? We deny their existence in history, refusing to teach our children of their bravery, just to satisfy a wicked and evil progressive agenda to keep men slaves. THAT, my patriots, is REAL racial hatred and bigotry!
I haven’t thought about or heard about Crispus Attucks in decades, not since my Black History elective class in the seventh grade. The substitute teacher wore a Dashiki, it was that long ago. It’s good to remind and relearn what is collectively our American history.
Thanks for posting this! It’s a keeper.
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There were many heroes of course, but Crispus Attucks was simply a thug.
Elaborate, please.
Crispus Attucks was part of a mob. They knew the British soldiers could not fire without orders. They took advantage of that knowledge and threw rocks, snowballs, and garbage at the soldiers.
An Irish witness who had actually witnessed attacks by troops in Ireland said he had never seen soldiers endure such a beating before acting. Someone unknown yelled “fire” and the soldiers fired.
An American patriot, John Adams defended the British troops in court.
I knew
If could go back, one of the few classes I would try harder to stay awake in would be History.
At the time, this would've been in the 70s, I didn't recognize that I was being spoon fed Leftist propaganda and/or dumbed down versions of American history, but now that I do, it pisses me off.
British officer got a haircut.
barber's boy complained to a private on sentry duty at the Customs House that the officer hadn't paid his bill (he actually had).
The soldier, in a typical soldierly manner than transcends time and nationality, essentially told the kid to eff off. The kid did not eff off, and the soldier (Private White) smacked him on the side of the head. A crowd gathered, getting progressively more threatening, and Henry Knox warned Pvt. White that if he fired at the crowd he would almost certainly die.
The crowd, led by Crispus Attucks, started pelting the soldier with rocks and snowballs and yelling at him to go ahead and fire his weapon and see what would happen.
Pvt. White called for help, and a squad of soldiers led by Captain Preston arrived (who was warned by Henry Knox that the crowd would kill the soldiers if they fired). The crowd grew to hundreds and continued to taunt the soldiers to open fire, and the soldiers were eventually pressed on and struck with clubs by several people, including Attucks. The soldiers fired, and Attucks, among others, was killed.
Brave American Hero, or rabble-rouser in the vein of Antifa and BLM? I say the latter. Consider that while Henry Knox tried multiple times to defuse the situation, Attucks tried to escalate the situation. His name doesn't belong among those brave Americans who actually were heroes.
As an additional point of interest -- I don't know how widely known King Philip's War is outside of New England, but suffice to say that it was a brutal conflict in which the English settlers suffered more dead and wounded in proportion to their population than any other war on American soil. Crispus Attucks was a descendant of Uktuk, aka Captain Tom, a hostile Indian chief who was captured and hanged by the English during the war.
“There were many heroes of course, but Crispus Attucks was simply a thug.”
“Elaborate, please.”
I did some research on Attucks about 20-25 years ago for a Letter to the Editor that was published in the Washington Times.
Crispus Attucks was known as a runaway slave who was the child of an Indian father and negro mother.
After running away he made money by trading in livestock, some said he came by some of the livestock by less than honest means.
He also worked on the Boston docks and went to sea occasionally on various fishing ships. At the time it was noticed that his journeys on the fishing ships followed some questionable livestock sales.
Being physically large and very strong Attucks was known to intimidate those who would have turned him in as a runaway or object too strenuously to his livestock speculations.
If Attucks were alive today he would be a dope dealing gangbanger, that seems to be his attitude.
What is known about his actions at the Boston Massacre was that he approached the British guards along with other men armed with clubs.
Some testified that Attucks threw the club that caused the British to open fire.
I just checked some of the online sources that I used 20 some years ago.
These same sources have begun sanitizing the Attucks history.
He is barely mentioned as a slave and his shady business history has been completely wiped out.
One would probably need to find a musty old book in the storage area of an old library to get the real story of Crispus Attucks.
Crispus should be in the African American museum, but I bet he isn’t.
Probly doesn’t have an Uncle Tom Wing, I’m guessing.
this is a big lie. Attucks was killed 5 years before the start of the revolution. He was the 2nd person killed in the Boston Massacre, the bullet hitting him having first passed thru the brain of some guy standing in front of him.
The Boston massacre actually threw cold water on the independence movement - that wasn’t re-ignited until the tea party & the passage of the intolerable acts.
Americans were put off by the mob action violence of the Boston massacre.
Crispus Attucks wasn’t so much a patriot as he was a provocateur. Before the liberals sanitized and in may respects rewrote American history, Crispus Attucks was known and regarded as someone with an attitude who engaged in some shady dealings. If he were alive today he would be Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan rolled into one, and a recipient of Soros money.
Yeah? Samuel Adams and John Hancock weren’t highly thought of either.
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