He acknowledges that the Maryland native owned more than a dozen enslaved people that he co-founded and passionately supported the American Colonization Society (whose goal of shipping free Black Americans to West Africa was vehemently condemned by Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and other prominent abolitionists) and that his aggressive and legally flawed prosecution of a local abolitionist helped trigger the Washington City “race riot” of 1835, when a White mob attacked Black churches, schools, restaurants and businesses. On Key himself, Clague takes a moderate position.
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