The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America [First paperback edition] 9781479806898, 1479806897, 978-1-4798-9340-9, 1479893404

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The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America [First paperback edition]
9781479806898, 1479806897, 978-1-4798-9340-9, 1479893404

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Horne
Gerald

Table of contents :
Content: 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.

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