History has always been a passion of mine...so these recent revisions have been torturing me. Thank you so much for your knowledge and preserving our true history.
Thanks for the information. I would hope that the people or groups calling him racist and the anthem racist would do their due diligence and learn the history before they spread all the lies so many people on the fence are believing. This is why we have so many young people here n the USA so against any patriotic move. Please keep giving these awesome historical truths. Praise Jesus for y’all!
Thank you so much for explaining this! When I heard people claiming that the star spangled banner was racist, I read the 3rd verse and it something didn't quite seem right with their sentiments towards it, but even I wasn't sure exactly what it all meant.
Ive been in Frederick MD where there is a stadium named after Francis Scott Key, he is burried in Rockville MD, there are buildings named after him in Frederick MD, also a mall, I’m afraid we will loose our history. I was not born here but I fell in love with American history when I taught our kids when we homeschooled Can anyone stop ‘‘this madness?
Yes I believe wholeheartedly We can Stop this but, it appears no one is interested in doing so nor brave enough or are simply DOESN'T Care. The far left has grown in power with time and hell to be reckoned with,. In which We've allowed. All political parties are supposed to be equal. So, I don't understand how the Democratic party can have such power and control over government and the American people. IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. With a little humor.. Who died and left them in-charge ?!
“A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.” Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711)
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They torn his statue down bc he owned slaves. Right or wrong, it was a way of life that still- like it’s said on this video- occurs today. It doesn’t matter what else he did. Period. That is why. Now, I personally don’t agree with taking any statues down at all, at least def not without a stringent vetting process/vote. History is history.
I believe that was intended to be covered at the end by the "He wasn't perfect" discussion. Historians must always summarize, and no one can decided what not to say without applying bias. It is, however, nice when the ones' summarizing clearly state their bias up front. In Key's own words "My God! my Father!
The Smithsonian website states that Frances Scott Key was a attorney that defended slave holder rights...? Is this true? I was asked to give a speech on a patriot. My initial reaction was "of course! Frances Scott Key! That's who I will talk about!" But since then I have only found really negative things about this man. I love Quincy Adam's too but I keep coming back to Francis Scott Key. Every ounce of my brain is screaming not to speak on him but then there is this other side of me that thinks I need to dig much deeper. I am speaking tonight. So the likelihood of receiving help between now and then is slim. 😥
The Smithsonian is propaganda. You have to realize they are pushing an agenda and have been for a while now. They use to be pro America, that's the sad part.
Ok, the older gentleman's question about whether America has been racist up till now almost made me palm my forehead. Let's not even talk about before the 1960s, because that question answers itself. Begin instead during the Civil Rights movement in the 60s and 70s ... Was America racist then when the powers that be fought in so many states so very hard against the cries of Black Americans, so much so to even kill white people who were trying to help the cause? Yeah... Move on to the 80s when drugs began to greatly impact communities of color and instead of seeing it as the health crisis it was Regan instead launched "The War On Drugs" resulting in so so so many black people being fed to the hungry jaws of the prison system. Was that racist? You may not think so but consider the difference in response to the Opiod epidemic... Suddenly drug addiction is a health crisis. You think Black voices and anguish would be considered enough to remove painful reminders (regardless of whether I agree with the removal or not) ..do you? Nah... I can go on but I want to actually hear about Key so I'll stop but buddy, it is only now that the pendulum has swung far enough for statues to start coming down...again, not saying whether I agree or disagree but let's be real for a moment please. And by the way, we are no where near post-racial. We're deep in the thick in the mock still. By the way, to think "Imagine" is a terrible song is downright disturbing...
His point was that many people fought against these atrocities. So no, as a whole, it wasn't racist. Change wouldn't happen if it was. Take the Civil War, for example, slaves didn't win the war themselves.
This video is interesting because it makes not mentioning of the fact that abolitionists ridiculed him because as District Attorney he suppressed abolitionists in their efforts of ending slavery. so is history complexed yes but pretending like key didn't also represent owners of runaway slaves is also trying to make him sound like a radical figure in abolitionists circles,so no the video isn't untruthful just isnt as balanced he was a slave owning lawyer with moderate abolitionists stances largely as black people would see it today and white people would say as being radical, make of that what you will .
Can someone please provide additional info on the Armenian genocide monument that was mentioned early in the video. I’m searching but not finding anything. Thanks
I really wanted to watch this but I cannot stand listening to someone being constantly interrupted. Probably great information. Guy in blue needs just a little bit of patience
I found Morley's book to be overly critical of Key (Ask me some other time about the "affair" with Mrs Gayle!). I don't think Key caused those riots by arresting Bowen and Crandall - I think he saved their lives by having them arrested and putting them in jail, then standing between the jailhouse door with 1 or 2 other men to keep the lynch mobs from murdering the 2 men. Reuben Crandall, the abolitionist arrested, wrote his father explaining that Key was being hard on him because the public viewed him critically as "the blacks" lawyer. This idea was also put forth by the "Hampshire Gazette" newspaper. [Marc Leepson, "What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life, 2014).
2 camps on whether Key wrote a poem that was later used as a lyric, or a lyric he intended to be sung to that tune. I'm in the "It was a lyric" camp myself, but the more common story is "poem later set to music". It wasn't much later, as the earliest broadside (new words to a familiar tune telling a fresh story) was printed very soon after Key, Skinner and Beanes returned to Baltimore and included "Tune - Anacreon in Heaven". That tune was so popular at that time that there are three known broadsides using it that describe the same Battle of Baltimore. For more, check out starspangledmusic.org/banner-mythconceptions/
FrancisScottKeyEsq to Anacreon in heaven was composed by John Stafford smith we’ll be before the battle 1812 so the words was made to fit to the music this must be why it’s is hard to singing There is a video on YT showing 4 U.S soldiers at Gloucester cathedral and they play the anthem on the cathedral organ and bells for them
@@robertphelps1574 The music was commissioned by a musical society (club), so it was written purposefully to be hard to sing and thus show off the virtuosity of the singer. And the battle and Key's lyric were in 1814.
@@robertphelps1574 Yes, it is said it was the first political song for the USA. Someone then wrote :To Jefferson and Liberty for Adam's opponent. In this recording, of Key's "When The Warrior Returns" I used the ~1800 sheet music arrangement of "Adams and Liberty" for the 1st 3 verses. The 4th verse in the recording is the words of the 4th verse of "The Star-Spangled Banner", and the arrangement is one of the last printed that uses the older opening notes on the tonic (do), rather than the now familiar so-mi-do. It is William Batchelder Bradbury's 1861 arrangement from the book "Bradbury's Golden Chain of Sabbath School Melodies: comprising a great variety of new music and hymns composed and written expressly for the Sabbath school: together with many of the best of the well known Sabbath school pieces. Newly Arranged and brought within and easy compass for Chorus Singing." I love the way they titled books back then. ruclips.net/video/ZtnCzIN0P2Q/видео.html
So there's a book called "The Snow Storm in August" using the quote “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.” to claim Key was a racist and that his Christian duty was to ship them back to Liberia to set up a US colony there. I can't find where this quote came from though. You also mentioned that he helped to free slaves for over 40 years of his life but he also grew up in in a plantation family. Do you know when the point of conversion was for him when he decided slavery was wrong? Was is just slavery he was apposed to or was it having African's in America he was apposed to?
It comes from "A Collection of Facts in Regard to Liberia, ..., to which the Correspondence of ... Tappan and Key." books.google.com/books?id=jY1OhlziM_4C&pg=PA20&dq=a+collection+of+facts+liberia+key&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiWpIWjgsnqAhUSVs0KHT-AAhIQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=key&f=false Morley takes his partial quote way out of context. Key is actually saying what could be paraphrased as "If the slaves were immediately emancipated and left in the South to fend for themselves, they would face systemic racism." Key came around to his mother's Christian teaching around 1800 - late teen or early 20s. Also in "A Collection..." Key himself claims "No northern man began the world with more enthusiasm against slavery than I did." His biographers say that growing up on that plantation, Tera Rubra, the Key's did some pretty unheard of things for that time, like having school and church for the enslaved people. Key is on the record as having sounded very much like he thought all Africans in America should go back to Africa. Ouch. But those statements, to my knowledge, are either in marketing the Colonization Society to southerners or in arguing court cases where Key, know as the black man's lawyer, needed to prove he was serious about seeking a conviction. His personal behavior seems to tell a different story. None of the family's slaves he freed went to Africa, and Key employed at least one of them.
Make sure they know that slaves were not “workers” or “immigrants”. That though slavery was not indigenous to America, it was extremely brutal and based on pseudoscience, claiming that some human beings were inferior based on their country of origin and color of their skin. Tell them that although slaves were emancipated in 1865, it took almost 100 years for them to be acknowledged as equal citizens of the US. Oh! And please show them how to do their taxes, balance a checkbook, about credit and interest, and generational wealth(I.e. investments and insurance). That should build a solid American!
If you consider Francis Scott Key about taking care of his slaves & that they would have no where to go if freed... can you not say the same for most slave owners in the South? Also could you say that the South was of mostly of Christian values & using Espesians 6:5-8 to keep slavery?
Have you read "The Color of Comprimise" by Jamar Tisby? It can be argued that the US Civil War started over economics, but was fought by soldiers on both sides who believed their interpretation of the Bible regarding slavery was the correct interpretation. It is a messy past,
The slave in that verse is not the same kind of slave you think of today. There was no real prison system when Ephesians was written. For small crimes or destruction of property the penalty was slavery to the victim of your crime until your debt was paid off. And the slave holders were not evil, or mistreated the slave. And then you had the year of jubilee where all debts were forgiven. Slavery was the criminal justice system of the day. It wasn't ppl kidnapped, it was criminals.
There is no conclusive proof that Key wrote either a poem or a lyric. I'm in the song lyric camp. He certainly wrote both: Bear Song (ruclips.net/video/Sz7YlS3-n4s/видео.html), Hymn for the 4th of July 1832 (ruclips.net/video/2wToJ1ZijwQ/видео.html), Lord, With Glowing Heart I'd Praise Thee (ruclips.net/video/LtZcjy4fTms/видео.html)... being some of the lyrics. Most interesting to this topic however is his 1805 "When The Warrior Returns" (ruclips.net/video/ZtnCzIN0P2Q/видео.html) , a lyric Key wrote and then sang himself to the tune - Anacreon in Heaven. Either way, the first printing of the words now known as The Star-Spangled Banner, just a few days after the battle ended, were a broadside intended to be sung to the tune - Anacreon in Heaven (amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/the-lyrics.aspx).
*_[_**_09:20_**_] Did Barton actually say that TODAY there remain 94 NATIONS where SLAVERY REMAINS LEGAL?_* WHAT WHAT WHAT! Can anyone POINT ME in the right direction so that I may VERIFY THIS? *_[_**_09:20_**_] Did Barton actually say that TODAY there remain 94 NATIONS where SLAVERY REMAINS LEGAL?_* WHAT WHAT WHAT! Can anyone POINT ME in the right direction so that I may VERIFY THIS?
@@jennybtx my apologies if you are an ESL student who has not yet acquired your diploma; however, my question is specifically and clearly about where such slavery REMAINS LEGAL. Additionally, why go to an example such as Libya, or, for that matter, any other foreign country? We here in the USA --- by many accounts, TRULY, the FREEST and GREATEST nation that there has ever existed here on God's green earth --- have many criminals amongst us who still make BIG MONEY because they practice ILLEGAL SLAVERY: see the sad volumes of HUMAN TRAFFICKING and etc, that are RAMPANT, particularly in our southern border States; where, many, many 1000's of adults and children are ENSLAVED by such evil activity; where such, "slaves", brought in by the CARTELS, are then forced, by many treacherous means, into providing ILLEGAL, DANGEROUS and HARMFUL services, activities and etc; where, SO IT APPEARS, such is PERMITTED and even ENCOURAGED by our evil anti-American Joey KrapInPantz admin. Like me, do you not also get frustrated when hearing/seeing the Bartons --- who, as I understand it, are a VERY GOOD CHRISTIAN and PATRIOTIC family --- making these strange claims, such as the one I pointed out ... but, OTOH, they say so little, if anything, about the equal or much greater sins being committed REGULARLY in our own back yard? I have seen estimates --- upwards of SEVERAL MILLION --- regarding the number of slaves HERE AND NOW in our USA! If true, such would be greater numbers than those enslaved during our antebellum period. Regarding such: where is our COLLECTIVE OUTRAGE for this mortal sin against individuals ... and against all of humanity? PS: I suspect that you and I are "on the same side" --- pro-liberty, pro-DOI Americans --- but I wish that you would rephrase your response.
@@FrancisScottKeyEsq Nice try with "Official" but Hail Columbia was held and sang as our National Anthem and the Presidential March until Jackson began Hail to the Chief.
Americans generally get a failing grade when it comes to knowing our “patriotic songs.” I know more people who can recite “America, F-k Yeah” from Team America than “America the Beautiful.” “Yankee Doodle”? No one older than a fifth-grader in chorus class remembers the full song. “God Bless America”? More people know the Rev. Jeremiah Wright remix than the actual full lyrics of the song. Most black folks don’t even know “the black national anthem.” (There’s a great story about Bill Clinton being at an NAACP meeting where he was the only one who knew it past the first line. Bill Clinton: Woke in the ’90s.) In the case of our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” perhaps not knowing the full lyrics is a good thing. It is one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon, and you would be wise to cut it from your Fourth of July playlist. “The Star-Spangled Banner,” as most Americans know it, is only a couple of lines. In fact, if you look up the song on Google, only the most famous lyrics pop up on Page 1: Oh say can you see, By the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed, At the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, Through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched, Were so gallantly streaming. And thy rocket’s red glare, Thy bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through thee night, That our flag was still there. Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave, O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. The story, as most of us are told, is that Francis Scott Key was a prisoner on a British ship during the War of 1812 and wrote this poem while watching the American troops battle back the invading British in Baltimore. That-as is the case with 99 percent of history that is taught in public schools and regurgitated by the mainstream press-is less than half the story. To understand the full “Star-Spangled Banner” story, you have to understand the author. Key was an aristocrat and city prosecutor in Washington, D.C. He was, like most enlightened men at the time, not against slavery; he just thought that since blacks were mentally inferior, masters should treat them with more Christian kindness. He supported sending free blacks (not slaves) back to Africa and, with a few exceptions, was about as pro-slavery, anti-black and anti-abolitionist as you could get at the time. Of particular note was Key’s opposition to the idea of the Colonial Marines. The Marines were a battalion of runaway slaves who joined with the British Royal Army in exchange for their freedom. The Marines were not only a terrifying example of what slaves would do if given the chance, but also a repudiation of the white superiority that men like Key were so invested in. All of these ideas and concepts came together around Aug. 24, 1814, at the Battle of Bladensburg, where Key, who was serving as a lieutenant at the time, ran into a battalion of Colonial Marines. His troops were taken to the woodshed by the very black folks he disdained, and he fled back to his home in Georgetown to lick his wounds. The British troops, emboldened by their victory in Bladensburg, then marched into Washington, D.C., burning the Library of Congress, the Capitol Building and the White House. You can imagine that Key was very much in his feelings seeing black soldiers trampling on the city he so desperately loved. A few weeks later, in September of 1815, far from being a captive, Key was on a British boat begging for the release of one of his friends, a doctor named William Beanes. Key was on the boat waiting to see if the British would release his friend when he observed the bloody battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore on Sept. 13, 1814. America lost the battle but managed to inflict heavy casualties on the British in the process. This inspired Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” right then and there, but no one remembers that he wrote a full third stanza decrying the former slaves who were now working for the British army: And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion A home and a Country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. In other words, Key was saying that the blood of all the former slaves and “hirelings” on the battlefield will wash away the pollution of the British invaders. With Key still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few weeks earlier, “The Star-Spangled Banner” is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom. Perhaps that’s why it took almost 100 years for the song to become the national anthem.
Let's set aside the historical discrepancies and get right to opinions: There are at least 2 ways to interpret Key's beliefs and actions around slavery, just as there are at least 2 ways to interpret the word "slave" in The Star-Spangled Banner. Some make Key out to be an abolitionist, which he was not, believing that immediate emancipation would put the former slaves in a bad situation (aka systemic racism, black codes, chain gangs and Jim Crow). Some make him out to be pro-slavery, which he was not, at least not by the standards of his day. And by his own admission he changed his mind about some things over the course of 60-some years. So he was an anti-slavery slave owner, which leaves plenty of "proof" for either side to make their case, simply leaving out the "proof" that supports the other interpretation. The two likely meanings of the word "slave" are displayed here in the video (American sailors pressed into the British Navy) and your post (Corps of Colonial Marines). The "hirelings" most likely meant mercenaries from the european continent. The trouble is that Key never commented on what exactly he meant by "slave". He changed other words in the song over the years (none of which stuck), but that word remained. However, he really exaggerated the fate of the former slaves. The Colonials Marines lost no more than 7 men from their 3 companies, summing Bladensburg and Baltimore casualties. British records say the Colonials were engaged at North Point, not in the ship's boats that never landed near Fort McHenry but took heavy losses. Neither did the formerly enslaved men flee in terror, but rather by all accounts they fought well and maintained good military discipline. We should have learned from the Colonials that our racial bias against black men in the military was wrong, but it wasn't until 1948 that we integrated our military. We should also have learned that all men really are created equal; that home is usually where you were born and/or grew up; and that if it is "the land of the free" but only for some of us, then those left out just might be interested in fighting their own war of independence. I think it is possible that Key felt all that you say he did about facing the Colonial Marines in battle, but in his emotionally transparent letters, written just after Bladensburg and Baltimore, he never (to my knowledge) indicates it. "To make my feelings still more acute the [British] admiral had intimated his fears that the town must be burned: and I was sure that, if taken, it would have been given up to plunder. I have reason to beleive [sic] that such a promise was given to their soldiers. - [Baltimore] was filled with women and children." "Never was man more disappointed in his expectations than I have been as to the character of [white] British officers. -With some expectations they appeared to be illiberal ignorant & vulgar, seem filled with a spirit of malignity against every thing American. Perhaps, however, I saw them in unfavourable circumstances...." [collections.digitalmaryland.org/digital/collection/mhwe/id/38] Lots of opportunity in that letter alone to be disrespectful toward blacks, but it isn't there. Personally, I hope that the current attention to the 3rd verse introduces more Americans to the Merikins and the Corp of Colonial Marines. There's is a great story. For more on the topic, check out my 4th of July performance. If you don't want to watch the video, the first comment lists a bunch of references. Alan Taylor's "The Internal Enemy" is my current read. ruclips.net/video/GqcwS58w5o4/видео.html
I don't disagree with the fact that things might ne going to far. However, the tone you noth are using in talking about this subject is very condescending and rather insulting. Do u really believe that a BLM group tore down statued that recognize the horrors of slavery. Sounds that it might just be a group the believes the exact opposite. FYI, Imagine was far from a 'bad' song. It has lifted the hearts and spirits of millions over the years. Do I believe it should replace it the Star Spangled Banner, NO, of course not. The history behind the song is powerful, ad well as the words to the song.
History has always been a passion of mine...so these recent revisions have been torturing me. Thank you so much for your knowledge and preserving our true history.
True history my ass!
@SuperPlastered shut up
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Thanks for the information. I would hope that the people or groups calling him racist and the anthem racist would do their due diligence and learn the history before they spread all the lies so many people on the fence are believing. This is why we have so many young people here n the USA so against any patriotic move. Please keep giving these awesome historical truths. Praise Jesus for y’all!
Thank you, may God bless you and your work!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, I have learned so much. If only history was this interesting when I was in school.
Knowledge....LOL. I guess since you agree with him it must be true.
History was interesting. You weren't interested.
Francis Scott Key is actually a school
Thank you so much for explaining this! When I heard people claiming that the star spangled banner was racist, I read the 3rd verse and it something didn't quite seem right with their sentiments towards it, but even I wasn't sure exactly what it all meant.
Its a very hard verse to interpret if you ask me. I hope their history of him is true.
Ive been in Frederick MD where there is a stadium named after Francis Scott Key, he is burried in Rockville MD, there are buildings named after him in Frederick MD, also a mall, I’m afraid we will loose our history.
I was not born here but I fell in love with American history when I taught our kids when we homeschooled
Can anyone stop ‘‘this madness?
Jesus can!
Your kinds or kids?
Yes I believe wholeheartedly We can Stop this but, it appears no one is interested in doing so nor brave enough or are simply DOESN'T Care. The far left has grown in power with time and hell to be reckoned with,. In which We've allowed. All political parties are supposed to be equal. So, I don't understand how the Democratic party can have such power and control over government and the American people. IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
With a little humor..
Who died and left them in-charge ?!
I AM A DESCEND OF FRANCE SCOTT KEY. I ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO. I AM HELEN H WYATT FROM Ga.
Thank you for renewing my interest in American History.
Thank you so much for making this video. I’ve been looking for this exact information!!!
Thank you. BLESSINGS. SHALOM ✝️
Great video is there more?
Thanks
More people should be like Francis Scott Key.
Love your work! You guys do talk over one another quite a bit though. :)
great discussion!
Love David Barton's teaching....
Such an amazing history lesson on a very seldom talked about figure in American history. Our history is short but so rich
Great info. You guys need a tripod for your camera.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you, from NYC
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Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.”
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Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.
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They torn his statue down bc he owned slaves. Right or wrong, it was a way of life that still- like it’s said on this video- occurs today. It doesn’t matter what else he did. Period. That is why. Now, I personally don’t agree with taking any statues down at all, at least def not without a stringent vetting process/vote. History is history.
This is low key crazy. Maybe we now have information at our fingertips to learn what you hide
Thanks. Now we know.
bro got cut off more times than Francis Scott went to court over slaves
You guys have glanced over a lot of Francis Scott Keys life. You also failed to cover a lot of his court cases that were not about freeing slaves.
I believe that was intended to be covered at the end by the "He wasn't perfect" discussion. Historians must always summarize, and no one can decided what not to say without applying bias. It is, however, nice when the ones' summarizing clearly state their bias up front. In Key's own words "My God! my Father!
Literally just watched a movie that talked about his story. I was wondering how accurate the story was.
What was the movie? Sounds interesting
Stephanie S. The movie is called “Freedom” a 2015 movie. It’s on amazon prime right now.
@@MiisterCookie how woke is the movie?
Can y’all post the primary source information for this?
The Smithsonian website states that Frances Scott Key was a attorney that defended slave holder rights...? Is this true?
I was asked to give a speech on a patriot. My initial reaction was "of course! Frances Scott Key! That's who I will talk about!" But since then I have only found really negative things about this man. I love Quincy Adam's too but I keep coming back to Francis Scott Key. Every ounce of my brain is screaming not to speak on him but then there is this other side of me that thinks I need to dig much deeper. I am speaking tonight. So the likelihood of receiving help between now and then is slim. 😥
The Smithsonian is propaganda. You have to realize they are pushing an agenda and have been for a while now. They use to be pro America, that's the sad part.
Ok, the older gentleman's question about whether America has been racist up till now almost made me palm my forehead. Let's not even talk about before the 1960s, because that question answers itself. Begin instead during the Civil Rights movement in the 60s and 70s ... Was America racist then when the powers that be fought in so many states so very hard against the cries of Black Americans, so much so to even kill white people who were trying to help the cause? Yeah... Move on to the 80s when drugs began to greatly impact communities of color and instead of seeing it as the health crisis it was Regan instead launched "The War On Drugs" resulting in so so so many black people being fed to the hungry jaws of the prison system. Was that racist? You may not think so but consider the difference in response to the Opiod epidemic... Suddenly drug addiction is a health crisis. You think Black voices and anguish would be considered enough to remove painful reminders (regardless of whether I agree with the removal or not) ..do you? Nah... I can go on but I want to actually hear about Key so I'll stop but buddy, it is only now that the pendulum has swung far enough for statues to start coming down...again, not saying whether I agree or disagree but let's be real for a moment please. And by the way, we are no where near post-racial. We're deep in the thick in the mock still.
By the way, to think "Imagine" is a terrible song is downright disturbing...
His point was that many people fought against these atrocities. So no, as a whole, it wasn't racist. Change wouldn't happen if it was. Take the Civil War, for example, slaves didn't win the war themselves.
Lord help us
That shaky cam is not helping.
This video is interesting because it makes not mentioning of the fact that abolitionists ridiculed him because as District Attorney he suppressed abolitionists in their efforts of ending slavery. so is history complexed yes but pretending like key didn't also represent owners of runaway slaves is also trying to make him sound like a radical figure in abolitionists circles,so no the video isn't untruthful just isnt as balanced he was a slave owning lawyer with moderate abolitionists stances largely as black people would see it today and white people would say as being radical, make of that what you will .
If we loose our historical identity, we'll loose our freedoms and next our great nation. Lord help us...
We have lost our historical identity.
That's a good thing.
He’s in my family tree ❤️
Can someone please provide additional info on the Armenian genocide monument that was mentioned early in the video. I’m searching but not finding anything. Thanks
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Is there an Instagram for wall builders?
I really wanted to watch this but I cannot stand listening to someone being constantly interrupted. Probably great information. Guy in blue needs just a little bit of patience
What about the 1835 Snow Riot? Key was also a part of Andrew Jackson’s cabinet......
I found Morley's book to be overly critical of Key (Ask me some other time about the "affair" with Mrs Gayle!). I don't think Key caused those riots by arresting Bowen and Crandall - I think he saved their lives by having them arrested and putting them in jail, then standing between the jailhouse door with 1 or 2 other men to keep the lynch mobs from murdering the 2 men. Reuben Crandall, the abolitionist arrested, wrote his father explaining that Key was being hard on him because the public viewed him critically as "the blacks" lawyer. This idea was also put forth by the "Hampshire Gazette" newspaper. [Marc Leepson, "What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life, 2014).
The 16 dislikes (at the time of this post) must be from racists.
Racist against Americans. Americans are their own race.
Ask yourself. What changed in America. There within lays your answer as to why have so many statues been taken down. By force a decree.
I love these...but can you please not talk over each other?
If Key could change his views.. then he would understand US not standing for that song.
It's in the bible
Mr. David, were there Irish slaves in the American territories?
Paul Yates, they were indentured servants. Most of them were in other parts of the Americas.
Why did they put Francis Scott key’s poem to the music of To Anacreon in heaven a song composed in England in 1773
2 camps on whether Key wrote a poem that was later used as a lyric, or a lyric he intended to be sung to that tune. I'm in the "It was a lyric" camp myself, but the more common story is "poem later set to music". It wasn't much later, as the earliest broadside (new words to a familiar tune telling a fresh story) was printed very soon after Key, Skinner and Beanes returned to Baltimore and included "Tune - Anacreon in Heaven". That tune was so popular at that time that there are three known broadsides using it that describe the same Battle of Baltimore.
For more, check out starspangledmusic.org/banner-mythconceptions/
FrancisScottKeyEsq to Anacreon in heaven was composed by John Stafford smith we’ll be before the battle 1812 so the words was made to fit to the music this must be why it’s is hard to singing There is a video on YT showing 4 U.S soldiers at Gloucester cathedral and they play the anthem on the cathedral organ and bells for them
@@robertphelps1574 The music was commissioned by a musical society (club), so it was written purposefully to be hard to sing and thus show off the virtuosity of the singer.
And the battle and Key's lyric were in 1814.
FrancisScottKeyEsq it was also used in Adams and liberty song which I believe was a presidential campaign song
@@robertphelps1574 Yes, it is said it was the first political song for the USA. Someone then wrote :To Jefferson and Liberty for Adam's opponent.
In this recording, of Key's "When The Warrior Returns" I used the ~1800 sheet music arrangement of "Adams and Liberty" for the 1st 3 verses. The 4th verse in the recording is the words of the 4th verse of "The Star-Spangled Banner", and the arrangement is one of the last printed that uses the older opening notes on the tonic (do), rather than the now familiar so-mi-do. It is William Batchelder Bradbury's 1861 arrangement from the book "Bradbury's Golden Chain of Sabbath School Melodies: comprising a great variety of new music and hymns composed and written expressly for the Sabbath school: together with many of the best of the well known Sabbath school pieces. Newly Arranged and brought within and easy compass for Chorus Singing." I love the way they titled books back then.
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So there's a book called "The Snow Storm in August" using the quote “a distinct and inferior race of people, which all experience proves to be the greatest evil that afflicts a community.” to claim Key was a racist and that his Christian duty was to ship them back to Liberia to set up a US colony there. I can't find where this quote came from though. You also mentioned that he helped to free slaves for over 40 years of his life but he also grew up in in a plantation family. Do you know when the point of conversion was for him when he decided slavery was wrong? Was is just slavery he was apposed to or was it having African's in America he was apposed to?
Wikipidia counters the freeing of slaves by saying "he also represented owners of runaway slaves."
@@gregoryfaoro6131 Wikipidiais no more reliable than Snopes
It comes from "A Collection of Facts in Regard to Liberia, ..., to which the Correspondence of ... Tappan and Key."
books.google.com/books?id=jY1OhlziM_4C&pg=PA20&dq=a+collection+of+facts+liberia+key&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiWpIWjgsnqAhUSVs0KHT-AAhIQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=key&f=false
Morley takes his partial quote way out of context. Key is actually saying what could be paraphrased as "If the slaves were immediately emancipated and left in the South to fend for themselves, they would face systemic racism." Key came around to his mother's Christian teaching around 1800 - late teen or early 20s. Also in "A Collection..." Key himself claims "No northern man began the world with more enthusiasm against slavery than I did." His biographers say that growing up on that plantation, Tera Rubra, the Key's did some pretty unheard of things for that time, like having school and church for the enslaved people.
Key is on the record as having sounded very much like he thought all Africans in America should go back to Africa. Ouch. But those statements, to my knowledge, are either in marketing the Colonization Society to southerners or in arguing court cases where Key, know as the black man's lawyer, needed to prove he was serious about seeking a conviction. His personal behavior seems to tell a different story. None of the family's slaves he freed went to Africa, and Key employed at least one of them.
We have chosen to home school. Our oldest is 3 so plenty of time, but do you recommend a homeschool curriculum??
Just One Room Schoolhouse all day 😂😂
Make sure they know that slaves were not “workers” or “immigrants”. That though slavery was not indigenous to America, it was extremely brutal and based on pseudoscience, claiming that some human beings were inferior based on their country of origin and color of their skin. Tell them that although slaves were emancipated in 1865, it took almost 100 years for them to be acknowledged as equal citizens of the US. Oh! And please show them how to do their taxes, balance a checkbook, about credit and interest, and generational wealth(I.e. investments and insurance). That should build a solid American!
I homeschool and do my own research, not one set curriculum. We have lots and lots of books, old and new.
Colin Kaepernick needs to hear this.
Why?
If you consider Francis Scott Key about taking care of his slaves & that they would have no where to go if freed... can you not say the same for most slave owners in the South?
Also could you say that the South was of mostly of Christian values & using Espesians 6:5-8 to keep slavery?
More - Colossians 3:22-24, 1 Timothy 6:1-2, and Titus 2:9-10.
Have you read "The Color of Comprimise" by Jamar Tisby? It can be argued that the US Civil War started over economics, but was fought by soldiers on both sides who believed their interpretation of the Bible regarding slavery was the correct interpretation. It is a messy past,
The slave in that verse is not the same kind of slave you think of today. There was no real prison system when Ephesians was written. For small crimes or destruction of property the penalty was slavery to the victim of your crime until your debt was paid off. And the slave holders were not evil, or mistreated the slave. And then you had the year of jubilee where all debts were forgiven. Slavery was the criminal justice system of the day. It wasn't ppl kidnapped, it was criminals.
@@dude8223 also, southerners, back then like many modern "black churches" dont know their bibles
@@kathleenking47 that's true today for ppl in the north and south.
Your soliloquy has not vindicated Francis Scott Key. And Francis Scott Key did not make a song. He penned a poem.
There is no conclusive proof that Key wrote either a poem or a lyric. I'm in the song lyric camp. He certainly wrote both: Bear Song (ruclips.net/video/Sz7YlS3-n4s/видео.html), Hymn for the 4th of July 1832 (ruclips.net/video/2wToJ1ZijwQ/видео.html), Lord, With Glowing Heart I'd Praise Thee (ruclips.net/video/LtZcjy4fTms/видео.html)... being some of the lyrics. Most interesting to this topic however is his 1805 "When The Warrior Returns" (ruclips.net/video/ZtnCzIN0P2Q/видео.html) , a lyric Key wrote and then sang himself to the tune - Anacreon in Heaven. Either way, the first printing of the words now known as The Star-Spangled Banner, just a few days after the battle ended, were a broadside intended to be sung to the tune - Anacreon in Heaven (amhistory.si.edu/starspangledbanner/the-lyrics.aspx).
*_[_**_09:20_**_] Did Barton actually say that TODAY there remain 94 NATIONS where SLAVERY REMAINS LEGAL?_*
WHAT WHAT WHAT! Can anyone POINT ME in the right direction so that I may VERIFY THIS?
*_[_**_09:20_**_] Did Barton actually say that TODAY there remain 94 NATIONS where SLAVERY REMAINS LEGAL?_*
WHAT WHAT WHAT! Can anyone POINT ME in the right direction so that I may VERIFY THIS?
This article says the same thing: theconversation.com/slavery-is-not-a-crime-in-almost-half-the-countries-of-the-world-new-research-115596
Is this new to you? They have slave markets in places like Libya. Human trafficking is slavery.
@@jennybtx my apologies if you are an ESL student who has not yet acquired your diploma; however, my question is specifically and clearly about where such slavery REMAINS LEGAL. Additionally, why go to an example such as Libya, or, for that matter, any other foreign country? We here in the USA --- by many accounts, TRULY, the FREEST and GREATEST nation that there has ever existed here on God's green earth --- have many criminals amongst us who still make BIG MONEY because they practice ILLEGAL SLAVERY: see the sad volumes of HUMAN TRAFFICKING and etc, that are RAMPANT, particularly in our southern border States; where, many, many 1000's of adults and children are ENSLAVED by such evil activity; where such, "slaves", brought in by the CARTELS, are then forced, by many treacherous means, into providing ILLEGAL, DANGEROUS and HARMFUL services, activities and etc; where, SO IT APPEARS, such is PERMITTED and even ENCOURAGED by our evil anti-American Joey KrapInPantz admin.
Like me, do you not also get frustrated when hearing/seeing the Bartons --- who, as I understand it, are a VERY GOOD CHRISTIAN and PATRIOTIC family --- making these strange claims, such as the one I pointed out ... but, OTOH, they say so little, if anything, about the equal or much greater sins being committed REGULARLY in our own back yard?
I have seen estimates --- upwards of SEVERAL MILLION --- regarding the number of slaves HERE AND NOW in our USA! If true, such would be greater numbers than those enslaved during our antebellum period. Regarding such: where is our COLLECTIVE OUTRAGE for this mortal sin against individuals ... and against all of humanity?
PS: I suspect that you and I are "on the same side" --- pro-liberty, pro-DOI Americans --- but I wish that you would rephrase your response.
@John K Are you bipolar or something? ADD or drugs, maybe? You are out of control. Chill.
Our National Anthem was "Hail Columbia until the 1930s, for some correct history about the
Holy Spirit of our Nation.
Hail Columbia wasn't the official national anthem. We never had one designated by Congress until TSSB in 1931.
@@FrancisScottKeyEsq Nice try with "Official" but Hail Columbia was held and sang as our National Anthem and the Presidential March until Jackson began Hail to the Chief.
Americans generally get a failing grade when it comes to knowing our “patriotic songs.” I know more people who can recite “America, F-k Yeah” from Team America than “America the Beautiful.” “Yankee Doodle”? No one older than a fifth-grader in chorus class remembers the full song. “God Bless America”? More people know the Rev. Jeremiah Wright remix than the actual full lyrics of the song. Most black folks don’t even know “the black national anthem.” (There’s a great story about Bill Clinton being at an NAACP meeting where he was the only one who knew it past the first line. Bill Clinton: Woke in the ’90s.)
In the case of our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” perhaps not knowing the full lyrics is a good thing. It is one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon, and you would be wise to cut it from your Fourth of July playlist.
“The Star-Spangled Banner,” as most Americans know it, is only a couple of lines. In fact, if you look up the song on Google, only the most famous lyrics pop up on Page 1:
Oh say can you see,
By the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed,
At the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
Through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched,
Were so gallantly streaming.
And thy rocket’s red glare,
Thy bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through thee night,
That our flag was still there.
Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
The story, as most of us are told, is that Francis Scott Key was a prisoner on a British ship during the War of 1812 and wrote this poem while watching the American troops battle back the invading British in Baltimore. That-as is the case with 99 percent of history that is taught in public schools and regurgitated by the mainstream press-is less than half the story.
To understand the full “Star-Spangled Banner” story, you have to understand the author. Key was an aristocrat and city prosecutor in Washington, D.C. He was, like most enlightened men at the time, not against slavery; he just thought that since blacks were mentally inferior, masters should treat them with more Christian kindness. He supported sending free blacks (not slaves) back to Africa and, with a few exceptions, was about as pro-slavery, anti-black and anti-abolitionist as you could get at the time.
Of particular note was Key’s opposition to the idea of the Colonial Marines. The Marines were a battalion of runaway slaves who joined with the British Royal Army in exchange for their freedom. The Marines were not only a terrifying example of what slaves would do if given the chance, but also a repudiation of the white superiority that men like Key were so invested in.
All of these ideas and concepts came together around Aug. 24, 1814, at the Battle of Bladensburg, where Key, who was serving as a lieutenant at the time, ran into a battalion of Colonial Marines. His troops were taken to the woodshed by the very black folks he disdained, and he fled back to his home in Georgetown to lick his wounds. The British troops, emboldened by their victory in Bladensburg, then marched into Washington, D.C., burning the Library of Congress, the Capitol Building and the White House. You can imagine that Key was very much in his feelings seeing black soldiers trampling on the city he so desperately loved.
A few weeks later, in September of 1815, far from being a captive, Key was on a British boat begging for the release of one of his friends, a doctor named William Beanes. Key was on the boat waiting to see if the British would release his friend when he observed the bloody battle of Fort McHenry in Baltimore on Sept. 13, 1814. America lost the battle but managed to inflict heavy casualties on the British in the process. This inspired Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner” right then and there, but no one remembers that he wrote a full third stanza decrying the former slaves who were now working for the British army:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
In other words, Key was saying that the blood of all the former slaves and “hirelings” on the battlefield will wash away the pollution of the British invaders. With Key still bitter that some black soldiers got the best of him a few weeks earlier, “The Star-Spangled Banner” is as much a patriotic song as it is a diss track to black people who had the audacity to fight for their freedom. Perhaps that’s why it took almost 100 years for the song to become the national anthem.
Let's set aside the historical discrepancies and get right to opinions: There are at least 2 ways to interpret Key's beliefs and actions around slavery, just as there are at least 2 ways to interpret the word "slave" in The Star-Spangled Banner. Some make Key out to be an abolitionist, which he was not, believing that immediate emancipation would put the former slaves in a bad situation (aka systemic racism, black codes, chain gangs and Jim Crow). Some make him out to be pro-slavery, which he was not, at least not by the standards of his day. And by his own admission he changed his mind about some things over the course of 60-some years. So he was an anti-slavery slave owner, which leaves plenty of "proof" for either side to make their case, simply leaving out the "proof" that supports the other interpretation.
The two likely meanings of the word "slave" are displayed here in the video (American sailors pressed into the British Navy) and your post (Corps of Colonial Marines). The "hirelings" most likely meant mercenaries from the european continent. The trouble is that Key never commented on what exactly he meant by "slave". He changed other words in the song over the years (none of which stuck), but that word remained. However, he really exaggerated the fate of the former slaves. The Colonials Marines lost no more than 7 men from their 3 companies, summing Bladensburg and Baltimore casualties. British records say the Colonials were engaged at North Point, not in the ship's boats that never landed near Fort McHenry but took heavy losses. Neither did the formerly enslaved men flee in terror, but rather by all accounts they fought well and maintained good military discipline. We should have learned from the Colonials that our racial bias against black men in the military was wrong, but it wasn't until 1948 that we integrated our military. We should also have learned that all men really are created equal; that home is usually where you were born and/or grew up; and that if it is "the land of the free" but only for some of us, then those left out just might be interested in fighting their own war of independence.
I think it is possible that Key felt all that you say he did about facing the Colonial Marines in battle, but in his emotionally transparent letters, written just after Bladensburg and Baltimore, he never (to my knowledge) indicates it. "To make my feelings still more acute the [British] admiral had intimated his fears that the town must be burned: and I was sure that, if taken, it would have been given up to plunder. I have reason to beleive [sic] that such a promise was given to their soldiers. - [Baltimore] was filled with women and children." "Never was man more disappointed in his expectations than I have been as to the character of [white] British officers. -With some expectations they appeared to be illiberal ignorant & vulgar, seem filled with a spirit of malignity against every thing American. Perhaps, however, I saw them in unfavourable circumstances...." [collections.digitalmaryland.org/digital/collection/mhwe/id/38]
Lots of opportunity in that letter alone to be disrespectful toward blacks, but it isn't there. Personally, I hope that the current attention to the 3rd verse introduces more Americans to the Merikins and the Corp of Colonial Marines. There's is a great story.
For more on the topic, check out my 4th of July performance. If you don't want to watch the video, the first comment lists a bunch of references. Alan Taylor's "The Internal Enemy" is my current read.
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Today in the US there are 300+ million slaves.
Stop lying
I don't disagree with the fact that things might ne going to far. However, the tone you noth are using in talking about this subject is very condescending and rather insulting.
Do u really believe that a BLM group tore down statued that recognize the horrors of slavery. Sounds that it might just be a group the believes the exact opposite.
FYI, Imagine was far from a 'bad' song. It has lifted the hearts and spirits of millions over the years. Do I believe it should replace it the Star Spangled Banner, NO, of course not. The history behind the song is powerful, ad well as the words to the song.
I really hate the interuptions from these young guys. Shut up and the older gentlmen talk!!!
You two need to find a job instead of trying to analyze what someone is thinking or meaning.