"The Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine," Frederick Douglass said in his famous 1852 address "What to the slave is the 4th of July?"
More accurately, the celebration of the Fourth of July, of American freedom in particular, may have then belonged to white Americans but Douglass was mistaken in his assertion that the Fourth of July did not belong to African-Americans. The critical role African-Americans played in establishing the nation is not brought up enough.
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