{"product_id":"the-counterrevolution-of-1776-slave-resistance-and-the-origins-of-the-united-states-of-america-9781479893409","title":"The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America","description":"\u003cp\u003eIlluminates 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. 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 coloniesa 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279658344501,"sku":"ByrdShop_1479893404","price":97.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781479893409.jpg?v=1780605106","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-counterrevolution-of-1776-slave-resistance-and-the-origins-of-the-united-states-of-america-9781479893409","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}