This was really interesting. I had no idea that blacks weren't allowed to celebrate the Fourth of July. As an SAR I'm kind of appalled that those black revolutionists weren't allowed to celebrate the victory that was rightfully theirs. I'm not surprised that Congress didn't allow them, though, given the atmosphere of the times. Europeans didn't even consider themself a single race at that time (Caucasian) and there was a lot of prejudice in America against non-Dutch and non-Anglo-Saxons. Irish Presbyterians (which my ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War was) were treated as second class citizens because of their Gaelic roots. The study of the delicate alliance of the people and states in the new union is quite interesting. There was hardly any support at all in the Southern states for a revolution at all because most of the people that lived there were indentured servants and slaves.
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