Remembering Attucks

NOTICE  — The subscriber invites his fellow-citizens and friends of humanity generally to Faneuil Hall, on Thursday evening, March 5, 1858, the day which, but the valor, patriotism and martyrdom of the colored American, Crispus Attucks and his associates, had been selected by history as the dawn of the American Revolution.  The exercises will consist of speeches from a number of Freedom’s orators —interspersed with appropriate music, vocal and instrumental; exhibition of revolutionary relics, emblems,  &c. &c.   Particulars will be given hereafter.  WILLIAM C. NELL,  Boston, Feb 3, 1858

(Liberator, Feb. 5, `1858, pg 3)