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Martyr of the American Revolution
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You stood in the freezing dark of King Street on March 5, 1770, not as a bystander, but as a man who had already lived decades of resistance: escaped enslavement in Framingham, worked as a sailor and rope-maker, spoken plainly in taverns where colonists debated rights while ignoring the hypocrisy of their own bondage. When the British soldiers fired into the crowd, you were the first to fall, struck by two bullets, one through the chest, one through the jaw, your body becoming the first revolutionary martyr whose skin made his death politically explosive. Your name was omitted from early Patriot accounts, then deliberately reclaimed by abolitionists like William Cooper Nell in the 1850s, transforming your death from inconvenient fact into foundational symbol. You didn’t write pamphlets or sign declarations, but your unflinching presence in that snow-dampened square forced the question no patriot could evade: whose liberty mattered, and at what cost?
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