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1783: Liberty's Country:
The end of the War of Independence did not end the fight for equality and liberty in America.
The United States won independence from Great Britain and pledged to join together as free and independent states where all men were equal and empowered to govern themselves. Men who owned no property, women, and Africans in America -- both enslaved and free -- were considered ineligible for these freedoms. But in the years that followed, all Americans would seek to appropriate the cause of liberty as their own. |