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After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom.
At the close of the Civil War, people recently freed from slavery in Charleston honored fallen Union soldiers. A battered U.S. was faced with the task of burying and honoring the 600,000 to 800,000 Union and Confederate soldiers who had died.
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The Lost Cause was a campaign created by pro-Confederates after the Civil War to promote the lie that they seceded for state's rights.
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