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

(NYU Press) In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne recasts the Revolutionary War as a conservative, counter-revolutionary movement, fought by the founding fathers to prevent the abolition of slavery. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 drives readers to a radical new understanding of the heroic creation myth of the United States. Horne is Moores Professor of History and African-American Studies at the University of Houston.