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The successful 1776 revolt against British isles rule in THE UNITED STATES has been hailed almost universally as a great step of progress for humanity. But the Africans then surviving in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this particular trailblazing booklet, Gerald Horne implies that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery looked like all but unavoidable in London, delighting Africans around it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Ahead of 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 had been a genuine and threatening likelihood that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies - a likelihood the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to warfare. The so-called Groundbreaking Warfare, Horne writes, was partly a counter-revolution, a traditional movements that the founding fathers fought in order to protect their to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new knowledge of the traditional heroic creation misconception of the United States.
