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CRISPUS ATTUCKS

The Recollections of a Colonial Agitator

By J. Mahoreh Faith

Paperback – $19.99

Description and Overview

Crispus Attucks was the major figure in the early struggle. A sailor who rallied Bostonians to walk into certain death from an assembled firing squad of British Regulars. His ethnic background was half African-American and half Native American. He was born into slavery in 1723 and escaped his
enslavement to become a dockyard worker, a whaler and a contract farmer.

His actions on March 5, 1770 in front of Custom House, on King Street, Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, England were so noted and heroic that he was buried with all his other honored American brethren in the Granary Burial Grounds. Imagine a fugitive slave laid to rest next to such noted Bostonians as John Hancock and James Otis.

This book and the story it tells is a work of historical fiction based on fact, which strives to give the reader a sense of who Crispus Attucks was and his life’s journey that led him to the momentous moment of standing before the British Military with other patriots at the very beginning of American independence.

About The Author

This “About the Author” segment is less about me personally and more about my general observations about writing this book. I feel that reading a person’s book gives a clearer insight into the author then anything I can say about myself.

Crispus Attucks: The Recollections of a Colonial Agitator, a work I have pursued for 55 years and found I could not escape from it. The research work I have dedicated to this book has been an eye opening journey through the dark history of America and slavery. There is no doubt that much of the history of slavery, especially in the North has been sterilized.

My pursuit of the truth about slavery brought me face to face with the still very real shame of the people and institutions that profited from the slave trade. I do not minimize the shame and degradation the African American had to endure during this period in our history and endeavor to accurately portray slavery in this book while honoring the man Crispus Attucks.

To quote Napoleon “History is the myth we all agree on.” I fear I have only enough endurance to write one more in this genre.