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

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

Jefferson Morley

334 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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