The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America - Kindle edition by Gerald Horne. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.






















The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America - Kindle edition by Gerald Horne. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.



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 residing in the colonies overwhelmingly sided
with London. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne complements his
earlier celebrated Negro Comrades of the Crown, by showing 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.  


In
the prelude to 1776, more and more Africans were joining the British
military, and anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain.
And in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were chasing Europeans to the
mainland. Unlike their counterparts in London, the European colonists
overwhelmingly associated enslaved Africans with subversion and
hostility to the status quo. For European colonists, the major threat to
security in North America was a foreign invasion combined with an
insurrection of the enslaved. And as 1776 approached, London-imposed
abolition throughout the colonies was a very real and threatening
possibility—a possibility the founding fathers feared could bring the
slave rebellions of Jamaica and Antigua to the thirteen colonies. To
forestall it, they went to war.  

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