Yesterday, 10:18 PM
1 - The sailor impressment was a major issue at the time, and the historical record shows that. Granted, I'm biased, considering my background.
2 - Nobody knew that, due to the slow communications.
3 - I still maintain that nothing Key wrote, in the third verse or anywhere, could be construed in any way as "racist". No race was mentioned at all. I've gone to great lengths to show that an impressed sailor in the British fleet was, for all intents and purposes, a slave. Since impressed seamen were actively involved in the battle of Fort McHenry, how do you know Key was not referring to them? Or to both?
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