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Snow-storm in August : Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the forgotten race riot of 1835
(2012)
By: Morley, Jefferson

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[United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2012
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Unabridged
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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 18 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781464026300 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13524500, 1464026300 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13524500
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English
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Narrated by Peter Jay Fernandez

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

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Fernandez, Peter Jay.

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Washington (D.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century

Race riots -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century

Free African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century

Slavery -- Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century

Trials (Attempted murder) -- Washington (D.C.)

Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843

Bowen, Arthur, 1817?-

Thornton, Anna Maria Brodeau, 1775?-1865

Washington (D.C.) -- History -- 19th century

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