What is Independence Day to the Children of The Enslaved?

Whitney Alese
4 min readJul 4, 2018

This post is an updated post of the original piece posted July 4th, 2020.

It’s weird celebrating the 4th of July as a Black person, born and bred here.

When we think of Independence Day, most of us think of a day off, others of us think of fireworks, grilling, family, and friends. Some of us are enjoying block parties. Some of us are…

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Whitney Alese

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