Francis Scott Key’s View of Black Americans

The Man Behind The Star Spangled Banner

Attributed to Joseph Wood, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

With the recent crash bringing down the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, attention has come to the man himself. I’m recycling a story I wrote a year ago that has suddenly become more relevant.

You know Francis Scott Key, don’t you? He wrote the Star-Spangled Banner. But how much do you know…