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Mitch Kachun is Professor of History at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915 and co-editor of The Curse of Caste; or the Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel by Julia C. Collins.
This intriguing and thoughtful book explores how and why Attucks gained prominence and meaning during different periods in US history, and how memories of Attucks echoed those times....Kachun's book is a fascinating exploration of those meanings and of the nature of historical memory in the US....Highly recommended. --CHOICE This intriguing and thoughtful book explores how and why Attucks gained prominence and meaning during different periods in US history, and how memories of Attucks echoed those times....Kachun's book is a fascinating exploration of those meanings and of the nature of historical memory in the US....Highly recommended. --CHOICE Hero or dockside rowdy, freedom fighter or not-quite-so-innocent bystander, Crispus Attucks is a mysterious figure whose role in this nation's 'creation story' we continue to debate. In this beautifully written and wide-ranging study, Mitch Kachun uncovers as much about changing perceptions of America over the two and a half centuries since the Boston Massacre as he does about Attucks himself. First Martyr of Liberty is a superb contribution to the scholarship on history and memory-and a compelling read from start to finish. -Julie Winch, author of A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten In his examination of the identity and memory of Crispus Attucks, Mitch Kachun mines and weighs available evidence to demonstrate the ways the story of the Attucks of the Revolution became important during the nineteenth century fight against slavery and illuminated black identity and manhood in the turbulent mid-twentieth century. With exemplary research and analysis, Kachun provides a model for the historian's craft, explores the creation and role of myth in history, and provides a valuable addition to work on history and memory. -Lois E. Horton, author of Harriet Tubman and the Fight for Freedom Hero or dockside rowdy, freedom fighter or not-quite-so-innocent bystander, Crispus Attucks is a mysterious figure whose role in this nation's 'creation story' we continue to debate. In this beautifully written and wide-ranging study, Mitch Kachun uncovers as much about changing perceptions of America over the two and a half centuries since the Boston Massacre as he does about Attucks himself. First Martyr of Liberty is a superb contribution to the scholarship on history and memory-and a compelling read from start to finish. -Julie Winch, author of A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten In his examination of the identity and memory of Crispus Attucks, Mitch Kachun mines and weighs available evidence to demonstrate the ways the story of the Attucks of the Revolution became important during the nineteenth century fight against slavery and illuminated black identity and manhood in the turbulent mid-twentieth century. With exemplary research and analysis, Kachun provides a model for the historian's craft, explores the creation and role of myth in history, and provides a valuable addition to work on history and memory. -Lois E. Horton, author of Harriet Tubman and the Fight for Freedom -Hero or dockside rowdy, freedom fighter or not-quite-so-innocent bystander, Crispus Attucks is a mysterious figure whose role in this nation's 'creation story' we continue to debate. In this beautifully written and wide-ranging study, Mitch Kachun uncovers as much about changing perceptions of America over the two and a half centuries since the Boston Massacre as he does about Attucks himself. First Martyr of Liberty is a superb contribution to the scholarship on history and memory-and a compelling read from start to finish.- -Julie Winch, author of A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten -In his examination of the identity and memory of Crispus Attucks, Mitch Kachun mines and weighs available evidence to demonstrate the ways the story of the Attucks of the Revolution became important during the nineteenth century fight against slavery and illuminated black identity and manhood in the turbulent mid-twentieth century. With exemplary research and analysis, Kachun provides a model for the historian's craft, explores the creation and role of myth in history, and provides a valuable addition to work on history and memory.--Lois E. Horton, author of Harriet Tubman and the Fight for Freedom
