Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Counter-Revolution of 1776Condition: NewSubtitle: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of AmericaISBN-10: 1479806897EAN: 9781479806898ISBN: 9781479806898Publisher: New York University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/01/2016Description: Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary WarThe 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 454gAuthor: Gerald HorneGenre: HistoryRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Counter-Revolution of 1776
Title: The Counter-Revolution of 1776
Subtitle: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
ISBN-10: 1479806897
EAN: 9781479806898
ISBN: 9781479806898
Release Date: 09/01/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 363 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Counter-Revolution of 1776 : Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
Publisher: New York University Press
Subject: Slavery, United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Discrimination & Race Relations, United States / General, African American
Publication Year: 2016
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Gerald Horne
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
