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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Horne, Gerald (1949-....)
Titre(s) : The counter-revolution of 1776 [Texte imprimé] : slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America / Gerald Horne
Publication : New York : New York University press, copyright 2014
Description matérielle : xiv, 349 pages ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes,
was in large part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding
fathers fought in order to preserve their liberty to enslave others--and which today
takes the form of a racialized conservatism and a persistent racism targeting the
descendants of the enslaved. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 drives us to a radical
new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States."--Publisher's
description
Sujet(s) : Noirs américains -- Jusqu'à 1863
Mouvements antiesclavagistes -- États-Unis -- 18e siècle
États-Unis -- 1775-1783 (Révolution) -- Société
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.31 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1775-1789 - Histoire sociale, politique, économique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781479893409. - ISBN 1479893404
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45704929j
Notice n° :
FRBNF45704929
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean slavery came to the mainland ; Free trade in
Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution unleash the slave trade? ; Revolt! Africans
conspire with the French and Spanish ; Building a "white" pro-slavery wall: The construction
of Georgia ; The Stono uprising: Will the Africans become masters and the Europeans
slaves? ; Arson, murders, poisonings, shipboard insurrections: The fruits of the
accelerating slave trade ; The biggest losers: Africans and the Seven Years' War
; From Havana to Newport, slavery transformed: Settlers rebel against London ; Abolition
in London: Somerset's case and the North American aftermath ; The Counter-Revolution
of 1776.
