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

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.