• ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Wow, it’s genuinely awful. Never read the entire original poem, but that’s disgusting, Key should have quit while he was ahead with the first verse.

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      9 months ago

      Looking it up- holy shit, you’re right. And naturally the author was a slave-owner, an anti-abolitionist lawyer, and noted racist, which isn’t particularly surprising when one reads the third verse onwards