![]() ![]() ![]() Understood in its day to be making any reference to race.Įxhibit A in critics’ account is the anthem’s seldom‐sung third verse, which gloatsĪt the defeat of the “band who so vauntingly swore” America would lose its Would not be fair to say that historians are of one mind on whether Key’s song was The words to the song during the War of 1812, was defaced with red paint andīut although claims of this sort have been circulating since at least the 1990s, it ![]() This week, in which a statue of Francis Scott Key, the Maryland lawyer who wrote These reports appear to have influenced the act of vandalism in a Baltimore park Should be either retired or at least acknowledged as a subject of This article appeared on National Review (Online) on September 15, 2017.Įxpression of racial hostility toward African Americans and Its third verse uses the word ‘slave,’ but it may not have referred to chattel slavery in the South. ![]()
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