To act as if these individuals were fighting to liberate others is to ignore the historical reality of the time. They were also of minor use and mostly neglected, never given fair recompense for their activities, and used as a token, symbolic unit, and they waged war against slave owner and non-slave owner alike. Historically speaking, the 2nd Corps of Colonial Marines, made up of former slaves, suffered in deplorable conditions, and a significant portion of their numbers died due to disease. These individuals (both slave and free, both black and white) represent traitors who joined with the British under empty promises to enslave all of America. Instead, the addition of “hiring” suggests that the British hired or paid off non-slaves to join their ranks. If Key believed that slaves were inferior, then he would only describe them as slaves. The point of contention is that “hireling and slave” are those who were “liberated” slaves “hired to fight on the side of the British during the War of 1812.” If that was true, then, as claimed by Snopes’s sources, the poem must be celebrating the defeat of slave soldiers fighting for the British.Ī “slave” is not “hired” and the “and” suggests two very separate entities. O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. No refuge could save the hireling and slaveįrom the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,Īnd the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution. That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusionĪ home and a Country should leave us no more? Snopes repeated many “historians” who were unable to understand the actual language of the poem’s third stanza, which says:Īnd where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
It was an article that lied about history to promote a radical ideology.
A poorly written report by Snopes popularized this bad information to verify the illogical justification of many NFL players to kneel during the National Anthem. There is nothing to suggest that the Star-Spangled Banner is racist or pro-slavery.
In Baltimore, a Francis Scott Key statue was defaced with the claim “Racist Anthem.” It did not take long for us to be proven right. We previously discussed the misguided attempt to tear down statues, and we warned that those who want to remove statues will continue to expand beyond all reason because their goal is to destroy history itself.
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