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Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the forgotten race riot of 1835

Details the history of Washington, D.C., in 1835, in which race riots exploded as whites, fearing a slave rebellion, attacked the property of free blacks and resulting in two criminal trials both prosecuted by Francis Scott Key.

Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
2012
9780385533379
book

Holdings

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131727149824572319428804596906PEHS370PEHS50191305.8 MOR305.815814652241736518457