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The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

Book information

Publisher
New York University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781479806898, 1479806897, 978-1-4798-9340-9, 1479893404
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
509 kB (521430 bytes)
Edition
First paperback edition
Pages
349\0
Time added
2019-09-24 23:51:04

Description

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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