James Fullford: Happy Independence Day—“Juneteenth” For The Historic American Nation! - "It's clear that Juneteenth is about black people. That allows us to be clear that the Fourth of July, like most of American history, is about white people"

This is a great point. Back before the Civil War, escaped slave Frederick Douglass asked "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" His answer: not much. And to the slaves’ descendants, apparently, less.

We might now ask "What To The White Man, Is Juneteenth?"

Juneteenth, as many people have only recently learned, is the day, two months after the surrender at Appomattox, that slaves in Texas finally learned, from Federal troops, that the Confederacy had lost, and they were now free, thanks to the wartime 13th Amendment. ...

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