On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed, as 13 colonies separated from Great Britain and established the United States of America. But while the Fourth of July is known to represent equality and freedom, all Americans were not free at the time.
“Too many Americans think of the Fourth of July as a day marking the triumph of freedom and equality in America, as if everyone enjoys the same liberties and opportunities,” Ethan Kytle, professor of history at California State University Fresno, told Yahoo News.
The slavery of Black people would continue for almost a century after the Revolutionary War. Women were denied basic rights. “White male Americans became free — only white males,” said Chad Dion Lassiter, a national expert on race relations and executive director of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.questioning how Americans celebrated freedom"in a nation that kept millions of Black people in chains," Kytle explained.In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in America.
“Those proclamations by the federal government did not reach everyone, nor did everyone in those rebelling territories feel that they were obligated to follow the dictates of President Lincoln and the federal government,” Corey D.B. Walker, professor of humanities and director of Wake Forest University's program of African American Studies, told Yahoo News.
More than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, on June 19, 1865, federal troops went to the Confederate holdout in Galveston, Texas. The Union soldiers read proclamation aloud, ensuring that all slaves were free, marking the end of slavery in the United States."Think about that: For more than two years, the enslaved people of Texas were kept in servitude.
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