Its not even about whether it was true or not. But I think that you are wrong.

The final provocation was that men who escaped their bonds of slavery were welcome to join the British Corps of Colonial Marines in exchange for land after their service. As many as 4,000 people, mostly from Virginia and Maryland, escaped.

Whether manipulation or not, the British kept their word to Colonial Marines after the war, refusing the United States’ demand that they be returned and providing them land in Trinidad and Tobago to resettle with their families. Their descendants, called “Merikins,” still live there today.

From the third verse:

No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave

That is just the first of four verses.

From the third verse:

No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave

It has racist lyrics threatening slaves so I can’t support it.

It has racist lyrics threatening slaves so I can’t support it.

I don’t care if it was referring to Baltimore. Fuck the national anthem.