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1: A FREE African American ex-slave sewed the  stars on  the Ol' Glory Flag that Key saw & wrote about ? GRACE WISHER see Shelli's book.

2: Francis Scott Key wasn't degrading the Black population but was shaming the British in the 3rd verse for  having enslaved the black gunners taking bullets on their ship as they attacked Fort McHenry that night and for enslaving him and others as captives. He called the British "blood foul", not the African American blood.

3: The most sought after abolistionist among those escaping the tyranny of slavery was Key, who stopped lynching mobs, once even pulling the noose over his own neck, to rescue his clients for whom he was securing freedom .

4: The first black man to serve in congress died 48 years before the Civil War, and in his 72 person funeral procession was one caucasian face: his dear friend Francis Scott key.

5: Why did Key and others still have slaves? They freed many, but were stopped by the British forces before the Revolution, fined and imprisoned, finally deciding to choose the battle they could first win, the Revolution. The teaching of the day in churches was "Replacement Theology" that wrongly entitled the population with ancient middle eastern ideas, later stoutly denounced by Key and other patriots who began a progressive battle for civil rights of the blacks and all others.

6: The LAST VERSE OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM Calls us "Heaven's Rescued Land." and states "In God Is Our Trust" and salutes pour veterans.