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X-WR-CALNAME:Santa Fe Watch Party: The Legacy of Francis Scott Key panel
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DESCRIPTION:Join for a live stream of the History Task Force's panel event 
 on the legacy of Francis Scott Key.\n\nFrancis Scott Key\, Class of 1796 a
 nd founder of the Alumni Association\, is St. John’s College’s most fa
 mous—and perhaps most controversial—graduate.\n\nA  lively panel discu
 ssion with notable Key scholars and historians on this complicated Johnnie
  and his legacy.\n\nViewed from today\, his life seems to be a series of c
 ontradictions.\n\nA devout Episcopalian\, he intended to become a priest\,
  but then became a lawyer to support his family.As a nationally recognized
  attorney\, he appeared several times before the Supreme Court\, arguing s
 uccessfully in 1808 that the African men aboard the seized slave ship Ante
 lope were free and should be returned to Africa. Twenty-five years later a
 s District Attorney\, he unsuccessfully prosecuted abolitionist Ruben Cran
 dall for distributing anti-slavery tracts that led to a murder attempt.He 
 represented enslaved Black people pro bono in suits seeking their freedom\
 , and also worked for slave owners defending against such suits. He owned 
 slaves himself\, freeing some while purchasing others.He wrote a poem that
  became the national anthem\, yet while the lyrics speak evocatively of th
 e nation’s struggle for freedom\, the third verse ambiguously mentions s
 laves\, leading to conflicting theories about what he meant.Convinced that
  white Americans were too racist to ever accept Black Americans as equals 
 and led by his faith\, he was one of the founders of the American Coloniza
 tion Society which sought to end slavery by “returning” Black American
 s to Africa.He was among a group that founded a free public school for poo
 r white children in Washington\, D.C. and insisted that it provide classes
  for Black children in the evenings.Regarded at the end of his life as a f
 ervent anti-abolitionist\, six months before his death he was one of few w
 hite men who attended the funeral of a leader of Washington’s free Black
  community\, leading an abolitionist newspaper to describe him as “a fri
 end of men of color.”Panelists:\n\nProf. Mark Clague\, author of the 202
 2 cultural biography of the Star-Spangled Banner\, O Say Can You Hear?Marc
  Leepson\, author of the 2014 Francis Scott Key biography What So Proudly 
 We HailedProf. William Thomas\, author of the 2020 history of freedom suit
 s\, A Question of FreedomModerated by Chanel Compton\, Executive Director 
 of the Banneker-Douglass MuseumThis discussion is organized by the College
  History Task Force which has received grants from the State of Maryland a
 nd the France-Merrick Foundation to research and publish reports on the me
 n for whom the Annapolis campus buildings are named. This panel will suppl
 ement the written report on Key\, and will provide audience members with t
 he opportunity to question the panelists on areas where they desire furthe
 r detail.\n\nQuestions for the panelists may be submitted in advance or du
 ring the panel to chtf@sjc.edu.\n\nYouTube Link: The Legacy of Francis Sco
 tt Key\, Class of 1796 (youtube.com)
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LOCATION:Santa Fe Campus\, Pritzker Student Center\, Senior Common Room
SUMMARY:Santa Fe Watch Party: The Legacy of Francis Scott Key panel
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.sjc.edu/event/santa-fe-francis-scott-key-panel
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