The counter-revolution of 1776 : slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America

Author

Gerald Horne

Call Number

• 973.31 H8154 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : New York University Press, [2014]

Physical Description

xiv, 349 pages ; 24 cm

Contents

• 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.