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September 3rd - Four Times They Defined Our Freedom, And Four Times We Rewrote It
Why does America celebrate July 4th but ignore September 3rd? Because July 4th is the advertisement, September 3rd is the contract — and Article 7 says they demanded their slaves back as a condition of freedom.
On this one date, September 3rd, four Black history stories collide:
1783 - The Treaty of Paris exposes America listing us as property to be returned.
1838 - Frederick Douglass steals himself in a sailor's disguise funded by his fiancée's feather bed.
1898 - Black settlers buy their own 40 acres to open Langston University in a church after being banned from white schools.
1895 -…
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