screaming, and rending like an Indian yell." Attucks often went by the alias Michael Johnson to avoid being caught after his escape from slavery. He may only have been temporarily in Boston in early 1770, having recently returned from a voyage to the Bahamas. He was due to leave shortly afterward on a ship for North Carolina.

Today, Crispus Attucks is commonly described as an African American in popular culture as the term 'mulatto' is rarely used in