Boston Massacre Monument - Boston Common
by Joann Vitali
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Boston Massacre Monument - Boston Common
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Joann Vitali
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Photograph - Photography
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Old vintage photograph in sepia of the Crispus Attucks monument in the Boston Common courtesy of the Library of Congress.
The Freedom Trail merges with the Black Heritage Trail on Oliver Wendell Holmes Walk in the Boston Common. Here, a monument commemorates the events of March 5, 1770, when British soldiers, later to be successfully defended by John Adams, shot down five Bostonians. Crispus Attucks is the best known of these five. He is widely hailed as a hero of the American Revolution, although little information about him can be verified. According to some reports, Attucks was of African and Native American descent and had fled to Boston after escaping his enslavers. Attucks� grave is located in the nearby Granary Burying Ground.
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