NEW ORLEANS DATA NEWS WEEKLY - While many Americans (mainly White Americans) had gained their freedom from a country they claimed was the very steward of oppression, hundreds of thousands of Black enslaved people were still in bondage. It would be almost a century later until Black Americans were finally free from the vile condition of forced servitude. | Terrol Perkins Data News Weekly Conbributor Every summer, Americans of all colors and creeds celebrate the day that the United States formally declared independence from Great Britain on July 4th. For it was on this historic day in 1776 that the Founding Fathers accepted the Declaration of Independence, deciding that it was no longer an […]
