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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 colonies—a 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.
This indeed it very interesting. However, it also forms a nice supplement to Saussy's contention, in his
Ruler's of Evil, that the entire Revolutionary War was a cynical machination from the very get-go. Saussy did not cover this slavery aspect, instead focusing on the bizarre economic (e.g. tax) policies handed down from London that also turned the otherwise happy colonists into revolutionaries. Here, threatening the institution of slavery, seen in many if not most eyes as justified by the Bible, would be just one more economic issue to add to pot of stew.
Ironically(?), it was George II, George III's father, who sponsored the foundation of the so-called 'modern' scientific university system at the University of Gottingen in the 1730's, where its very first scholastic product was the intellectually baseless foundation of the Romantic Movement, where relative racial merit stems organically from genetic origins in certain land qualities (the root of today's white nationalist Blood and Soil claims). So, on the one hand, while the Euro-elites were downplaying overt slavery in the colonies, they were also justifying their desire to exploit the rest of the world through further colonization.
Also ironic, is that this so-called modern university system (yet the paradigm for today) was advertized to be based upon rigorous scientific methodology, and yet the Romantic Movement had no such basis of evidential support -- other than the profitable speculations of it founder, and furthermore it supported emotional 'Feelings' as being superior to all other forms of understanding stemming from a rational basis. Much was at stake from such justification, profits from opium, tea, spices, oil, ...
