the nation’s four million newly emancipated citizens transformed Independence Day into a celebration of black freedom. The Fourth became an almost exclusively African American holiday in the ...

Narrator: In the 1950s and 60s, many colonised countries that were part of the British Empire gained their independence. Ghana was one of the first African ... Independence Day has been celebrated ...

The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men ... My subject, then, fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's ...