Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of 1812.

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“The Star-Spangled Banner” was composed by Francis Scott Key, a Maryland attorney, slaveholder and poet, who was inspired by watching soldiers raise the flag over Baltimore’s Fort McHenry ...

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Re “Remove ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ as national anthem ... is the basis for the Anthem is “racist”. Francis Scott Key was a slave owner, therefore we should not honor his poem.