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Snow-Storm in August
Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
Author: Jefferson Morley
Narrator: Peter Jay Fernandez
Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 07/03/2012
Category: Social Science - Slavery
Synopsis
Editor and investigative reporter Jefferson Morley has been widely published in national periodicals and is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction work Our Man in Mexico. An eye-opening look at Washington's first race riot, Snow-Storm in August also offers revealing profiles of Arthur Bowen, the slave blamed for the riot, and ''Star Spangled Banner'' lyricist Francis Scott Key, a defender of slavery who sought capital punishment for Bowen.