How the Enslaved Came to Celebrate Independence Day
Frederick Douglass saw the Fourth as a mockery, because he was still a slave, but slave poet George Moses Horton saw Independence Day as one to be celebrated as a victory for all. As indeed it was.
George Moses Horton
What Common and Enslaved Poet George Moses Horton Shared
Who was George Moses Horton? I suspect that he was someone like Common, who would dance and gesture when he composed.