Asclepias
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Yeah I read about Keys. He was a slave owner that thought Blacks were less than human. The only reason he freed his slaves was because he later felt it was at odds with being a christian. Weirdly it didnt stop him from owning slaves when he was younger. The Battle of Bladenburg was in Aug 1814. After Keys got his ass kicked, he wrote the SSB a month later. If you note the primary goal of the ACS was to send free Blacks back to Africa. The ones here were to remain slaves. The free ones were to be purged from society so as not to help or inspire slave rebellions.Proof of what?Ignorance would be not knowing. We know Keyes was a racist and we know he celebrated the death of ex slaves in his song because he got his ass kicked by Black soldiers.
Wat?! WTF? Nm, you're like the srs Republican types that fall for red meat satire sites.
You have any proof of any of that?
Keyes getting his ass kicked by black soldiers. I already know he wasn't a racist. He freed all the slaves he inherited except for one he gave a piece of land to and let retire. Soooo racist.
Not.
Battle of Bladensburg. Keys thought Blacks were inferior Then he got his ass kicked by them. A short time later he wrote the national anthem celebrating the death of Blacks that kicked his ass.
Key purchased his first slave in 1800 or 1801 and owned six slaves in 1820. In the 1830s, Key manumitted (set free) some of his slaves one of whom (Clem Johnson) continued to work for him for wages as his farm's foreman, supervising several Negro slaves.
Throughout his career Key also represented several slaves seeking their freedom in court for free,
Key publicly criticized slavery's cruelties, so much that after his death a newspaper editorial stated "So actively hostile was he to the peculiar institution that he was called 'The N woid Lawyer' .... because he often volunteered to defend the downtrodden sons and daughters of Africa. Mr. Key convinced me that slavery was wrong—radically wrong." In June 1842, Key attended the funeral of William Costin, a free, mixed race resident who had challenged Washington's surety bond laws.
Key was a founding member and active leader of the American Colonization Society and its predecessor, the influential Maryland branch, the primary goal of which was to send free African-Americans back to Africa.
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