Christopher Bonner
Historian specializing in 19th-century African American history and author of Remaking the Republic, focusing on Black politics and the creation of American citizenship.
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Apr 28, 2026 • 1h 15min
BFW Revisited: Whose Fourth of July?
Martha S. Jones, historian of African American democracy at Johns Hopkins, and Christopher Bonner, scholar of 19th-century Black politics, explore how Black Americans read the Declaration and forged alternative Independence celebrations. They discuss wartime choices, legal claims to freedom, emancipation Days, and why many shifted festivities to July 5th. Short, probing conversations about belonging and contested national memory.
