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Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
By Morley, Jefferson
- ISBN
- 9780385533379
- Publisher
- Nan A. Talese: Doubleday
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Reviewed on June 15, 2012 | Social Sciences
Journalist Morley (Washington correspondent, Salon; Our Man in Mexico) presents the first book-length account of the 1835 Washington, DC, race riot that spotlighted the increasingly tense and complex relations among whites, free blacks, and slaves in the nation's capital. White rioters, enraged by freedom-seeking slave Arthur Bowen's attempted murder of his owner, took out their animosity on free blacks such as successful restaurateur and...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
