Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780385533386 (0385533381)
Publish date: July 3rd 2012
Publisher: Anchor
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
On the night of August 4th, Arthur Bowen, an eighteen-year-old slave, stumbled into the bedroom where his owner, Anna Thornton, slept. He had an ax in the crook of his arm. An alarm was raised, and he ran away. Word of the incident spread rapidly, and within days, Washington's first race riot explod...