
The Counter-Revolution of 1776
Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
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Larry Herron
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Gerald Horne
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 war.
The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.
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Great book!!!!
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Excellent History of a little-known section of settler history
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an eye opener
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I just love Gerald Horne!
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this book is a must-read.
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A Truly Revolutionary History, Riveting and New
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Europe creates racism in America
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"We never knew how close we got" - Steve Cokely
Hidden History
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There are only two Factual and honest history books I’ve read on The United States: The New Jim Crow and the counter revolution of 1776.
Other so called “historical” books on the U.S have tried to white-wash history.
True American history.
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Excellent
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