🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #JazzRecordRequests William Williams: 🎵 Out for a Walk #BBCRadio3 #WilliamWilliams
William Williams escaped slavery, adopted a new name, and joined the U.S. Army in 1814.
He fought at Fort McHenry—the battle that inspired “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Mortally wounded in the fight, he died still unfree in the eyes of the law.
This Memorial Day, remember him.
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