The Untold History of Independence Day

by The Real News Network (TRNN) / July 4th, 2014

Peter Linebaugh is an American Marxist historian who specializes in British history, Irish history, labor history, and the history of the colonial Atlantic: The rights and freedoms that we celebrate on the Fourth of July are the product of vast human struggle that remains unfinished

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This article was posted on Friday, July 4th, 2014 at 12:55pm and is filed under Anti-slavery, History, Original Peoples, Racism, Rendition.