Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity.
The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States..
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.
To forestall it, they went to war.
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.
For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved.
Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt.
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.
But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British.
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity
