United States at 250: Looking beyond the founding fathers to unsung revolutionaries

The United States celebrates two hundred fifty years of independence, but the founding story is more complicated than statues suggest. According to RFI, the Revolution was shaped by figures rarely in the spotlight: an enslaved person who spied for independence, a woman who fought in disguise, and an Oneida healer. Their stories root the American founding in the centuries before seventeen seventy-six — in European colonization, Indigenous dispossession, and African slavery.

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