...In the year of 1723, Nancy Attucks who was a Natick Indian and his father who was thought to be Prince Yonger was a slave to America from Africa gave birth to a boy who received the name Crispus Attucks. Attucks was born in Framingham, Massachusetts and was most likely a born into slavery because at this time if your skin color wasn’t white and you lived in the south you were most likely a slave. Crispus had two siblings, his older sister was Phebe and he had a baby brother who was unnamed died to fever when Crispus Attucks was seven years old. Until the age of sixteen Crispus worked on the farm with his father while his sister and mother performed house duties. To keep in mind Buckminster was viewed as a slave owner who respected his slaves...
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...death is still shrouded in mystery. Although nothing is known definitively about his ancestry, his father is thought to be Prince Yonger, a slave who was brought to America, while his mother is thought to be Nancy Attucks, a Natick Indian. In the Boston Gazette on Oct. 2, 1750, William Brown, a resident of Framingham, Mass., advertised for the recovery of a runaway slave named “Crispas”—usually thought to be the Crispus in question. That advertisement proclaimed that “Crispas” had run away and described him as 27 years old and 6 feet 2 inches tall. In the 20-year interval between his escape from slavery and his death at the hands of British soldiers, Attucks probably spent a good deal of time aboard whaling ships....
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...the dock to working in the fields. But when the revolution broke out, the slaves saw this as an opportunity for freedom. The war was seen as the beginning of a country with freedom as its corner stone. With a war in the British American colonies for freedom being fought, what role might the slaves play? Would they fight for their masters or would they fight for freedom? Slaves and slavery played a role in the war that many did not imagine. In mid-1730s, the Great Awakening began in New England. This brought the gospel to all that would listen. It grabbed the interest of the slaves. They heard a message of salvation and freedom. The SON OF GOD, shall make you free, and you shall be free (White, 118). This message provided a new hope and assurance that slavery was not forever. The Great Awakening led to the education of many black people. This was very important for them, due to the lack of education that they had previously received. They were now able to read and write, which enabled them to understand what was going on in the colonies. And so when the talk of freedom and revolution broke out. They saw this as the end of slavery and beginning of...
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...The American Revolution started around 1673, after the French and Indian War. Republicanism and patriotism began to spread around the colonies, and the British began to enforce taxes and acts on the colonists, sparking a revolution. Though the Americans had smaller armies, less experience, and not as advanced weapons, they won. After the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended the French and Indian War, Britain had to pay off large debts acquired during the war. George Grenville, the British Prime Minister, ended the concept of benign neglect involving the British colonies. His idea of ending the debt included taxes and tariffs. In 1764, the Sugar Act was enforced; it placed a tariff on sugar, coffee, and wine. In 1765, there was a tax on internal...
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...little choice." During that time period, an "indenture fee" was needed in order to enter one of the more higher and socially accepted fields. Being a shoemakers' apprentice, therefore, was a position reserved for poor boys who couldn't handle anything else. Young best characterizes the effect of the Revolution by saying: "He was a nobody who briefly became a somebody in the Revolution..." This statement epitomizes the meaning of the Revolution to George Robert Twelves Hewes: it gave him a sense of purpose and made him feel important. Three instances in which this meaning was clear were the Boston Massacre, the Boston Massacre Trial, and the Boston Tea Party. Hewes claimed to have known the victims of the Massacre, all except the runaway slave, Crispus Attucks. He also claims that one of the victims, James Caldwell, fell into his arms and Hewes helped carry him to the doctors before reporting to Caldwell's ship captain. After the Massacre, Hewes was allegedly called upon to testify on the behalf of the...
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...Doug Kerr June 14, 2013 History 201 Part One: Early Settlers of the American Colonies Early settlers of the American colonies came to the future United States for a variety of reasons. Settlers set off to the new world and left their families, friends, and homes to start new lives. Under those circumstances, why would they still go? Religious oppression. Both the Protestant and Catholic churches were fighting for power in England. When Britain was under catholic powers, the protestant people were persecuted, and fled to the new world in hopes of being able to worship in their own ways freely. Another reason was economic struggle in Europe. Due to economic struggle, people were losing their jobs and became destitute. When the opportunity to come to the New World arose, many of the struggling people saw it as a way to start over and make their fortune in hope to alleviate the suffering in Europe. Beginning as early as thirty thousand years ago, during the Pre-Columbian Era, Americans came from Asia over a land bridge formed at the Bering Strait during the Ice Age. The new immigrants were gatherers and hunters, known as Native Americans, who reached a population perhaps as many as 100 million spread across Central and South America by the time the Europeans “discovered” the New World. Native Americans development of agriculture provoked new innovations and cultures that would influence America forever ("Study Notes - Free AP Notes," n.d.). During the Middle Ages, Europeans...
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