The problem wasn’t the vision of the country we remember on this day. The fault lay in the fact that some got left out. Douglass had the audacity to believe that America's story was not finished until the country kept all her promises.
After the Civil War, African Americans in the South transformed Independence Day into a celebration of their newly won freedom.
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Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones.
This is the perfect time to read the entirety of Frederick Douglass’s famous speech (from 1852), and not merely because of the date on the calendar.(Dave Zirin)
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