Amy Goodman
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"Counter-Revolution of 1776": Was U.S. Independence War a Conservative Revolt in Favor of Slavery?
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10:34Now PlayingAs the United States prepares to celebrate Independence Day, we look at why July 4 is not a cause for celebration for all. For Native Americans, it may be a bitter reminder of colonialism, which brought fatal diseases, cultural hegemony and genocide. Neither did the new republic's promise of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" extend to African Americans. The colonists who declared their freedom from England did not share their newly founded liberation with the millions of Africans they had captured and forced into slavery. We speak with historian Gerald Horne, who argues the socalled Revolutionary War was actually a conservative effort by American colonists to protect their system of slavery. He is the author of two new books"The CounterRevolution of 1776Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America" and "Race to RevolutionThe U.S. and Cuba during Slavery and Jim Crow." Horne is professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Houston.
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