The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
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| Title | : | The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America |
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (907 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1479806897 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 363 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-01 |
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The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt.
Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to w
Editorial : "Every person committed to the struggle for racial justice, liberation, and equality, and who struggles every day with the difficulties of forging unity between Black and white, needs to read this book."-Portside
"Historian Horne makes the case that the War for Independence was in fact a conservative counter-revolution that sought to preserve slavery in North America." -In These Times
"Horne returns with insights about the American Revolution that fracture even more some comforting myths about the Founding Fathers. The author does not tiptoe through history’s grassy fields; he swings a scythe . Clear and sometimes-passionate prose shows us the persistent nastiness underlying our founding narrative."-Kirkus
“If the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the sixties had had the benefit of Horne’s book, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United
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