Every year, Americans are supposed to celebrate July 4th as the founding of a U.S.A. both free and enslaved. The fourth of July is a federal holiday.
On July 4, 1776, the population of the United States, then the Thirteen Colonies, was estimated to be about 2.5 million people. This population included both free individuals and enslaved people.
Out of this population, approximately 500,000 individuals were enslaved African Americans. The remaining population, roughly 2 million people, consisted of free individuals, which included various groups such as European settlers, Indigenous peoples, and a smaller number of free African Americans.
Of course, millions of Americans do not celebrate the birth of a racist slave owning U.S.A., homicidal at home and genocidal abroad.
This writer, your dedicated peoples historian activist, also strongly advises his readers not to celebrate the July 4th holiday birth of a U.S.A. founded by owners of African slaves. Patience! A better deal will eventually come our way with the rise of China and the Global South.
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