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

CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
1 Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean Slavery Came to the Mainland
2 Free Trade in Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution Unleash the Slave Trade?
3 Revolt! Africans Conspire with the French and Spanish
4 Building a “White” Pro-Slavery Wall: The Construction of Georgia
5 The Stono Uprising: Will the Africans Become Masters and the Europeans Slaves?
6 Arson, Murders, Poisonings, Shipboard Insurrections: The Fruits of the Accelerating Slave Trade
7 The Biggest Losers: Africans and the Seven Years’ War
8 From Havana to Newport, Slavery Transformed: Settlers Rebel against London
9 Abolition in London: Somerset’s Case and the North American Aftermath
10 The Counter-Revolution of 1776

Notes
Index
About the Author