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

Horne, Gerald. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781479893409 (bound : acid-free paper)
ISBN: 1479893404 (bound : acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
xiv, 349 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : New York University Press, c2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.