Important Unimportance (Post 24)

Frederick Douglass explains in his article "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" how this date is of relative unimportance to blacks as a race, as it did not promote the causes of black America of the time.  I say this to mean, America gaining its independence, its "Freedom" if you will, did not translate onto the population as a whole.  The fact that there were still those in servitude would not let the country be called entirely free.  

I would have to say that Douglass makes several good points about how keeping people in servitude will hold back a nation from true freedom, however I would have to say that there are more important issues to be dealt with.  At the time, the 4th of July may have not seemed like much as there were not immediate changes in the way we conducted business, however the break off from England allowed us the more direct control that would later allow us to free slaves and make other changes to improve black America's situation.  Who knows what may have happened had the 4th never occur ed?  There's still the chance that we may have still had slavery to this day (the fact that it doesn't exist in either England or the United States now is irrelevant, as this is strictly hypothetical).  On one level, the 4th of July may have not seemed like much, but on the grand scale it may have made all of the difference.