In August, 1835 a slave teenager entered his owner''s bedroom about midnight, setting off the first race riot in Washington, D.C. He was tried by District Attorney Francis Scott Key, convicted and condemned to death, but pardoned by President Andrew Jackson after being lobbied by Anna Thornton, owner
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