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Snow-Storm in August: The Struggle for American Freedom and Washington's Race Riot of 1835

Snow-Storm in August: The Struggle for American Freedom and Washington's Race Riot of 1835

Morley, Jefferson

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0307477487
ISBN13: 9780307477484
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Apr 9 2013
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.75 Width: 4.88 Depth: 8.29
Language: English

In 1835, the city of Washington simmered with racial tension as newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, outnumbering slaves for the first time. Among the enslaved was nineteen-year-old Arthur Bowen, who stumbled home drunkenly one night, picked up an axe, and threatened his owner, respected socialite Anna Thornton. Despite no blood being shed, Bowen was eventually arrested and tried for attempted murder by district attorney Francis Scott Key, but not before news of the incident spread like wildfire. Within days Washington's first race riot exploded as whites, fearing a slave rebellion, attacked the property of free blacks. One of their victims was gregarious former slave and successful restaurateur Beverly Snow, who became the target of the mob's rage. With Snow-Storm in August, Jefferson Morley delivers readers into an unknown chapter in history with an absorbing account of this uniquely American battle for justice.

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