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Snow-Storm in August
- Author
- Jefferson Morley
- Narrator
- Peter Jay Fernandez
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 3 July 2012
- Run Time
- 9 hours 17 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Jefferson Morley
- Narrator
- Peter Jay Fernandez
- Duration
- 9 hours 17 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 July 2012
- ISBN
- 9781464048357
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Slavery and abolition of slavery, History of the Americas, Political structures: democracy
Synopsis
Editor and investigative reporter Jefferson Morley has been widely published in national periodicals and is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction work Our Man in Mexico. An eye-opening look at Washington's first race riot, Snow-Storm in August also offers revealing profiles of Arthur Bowen, the slave blamed for the riot, and ''Star Spangled Banner'' lyricist Francis Scott Key, a defender of slavery who sought capital punishment for Bowen.
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