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Why did African Americans spend a century celebrating the Fifth of July instead of the Fourth? Why did a sitting US president personally try to end a journalist's career over one newspaper series? And two hundred and fifty years on, why can't America agree on what its founding document actually means?
A 250-year-old promise of equality collides with slavery, revolution and a modern-day tenure battle as Afua and Peter close out their Declaration of Independence series.
[] Fifty-six men sign in Philadelphia — many of them slave owners writing "all men are created equal"
[] Lafayette's regret: "I would never have drawn my sword..."
[] Why a Virginia senator can't stomach Bolívar's revolution
[] Why Black Americans spent a century celebrating the Fifth of July instead
[] Frederick Douglass asks the question that still stings: "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?"
[] The project that says America was really founded in 1619
[] A sitting president personally tries to take the story down
[] She wins a Pulitzer. Her university refuses her tenure anyway.
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