Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781464026287 (1464026289)
ASIN: 1464026289
Publish date: 2012
Publisher: Recorded Books
Minutes: 8
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...