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

As the United States of America, celebrate its independence anniversary declared on 4th July, 1776, we take a look at the history of America, the events that led to declaration of independence, and most importantly why declaration of independence was not a cause for celebration among all Americans, particularly for the native Americans and the enslaved African Americans. “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.”

The so-called Revolution was according to Professor Gerald Horne, was a ‘Counter-Revolution’ a conservative effort by American colonists to protect their system of slavery. Contrary to anonymous role often assign to African Americans in the American Revolution (which Prof. Gerald Horne refer to as Counter-Revolution) the prof. lucidly outline their roles and their major impact. The book is a great shift in paradgim.

Professor Gerald Horne, is the author of the book “The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origin of the United States of America.”

https://kritisansar.noblogs.org/files/2017/12/The-Counter-Revolution-of-1776.pdf

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  • Grownbravy [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I wanna share a funny story from my time playing Marathon:

    So I played solo the other day, I wanted to be a chiller, do some contracts, be easy. I get to Overflow on Perimeter, i scope the area, seems someone here, so i waltz around a bit, wait for them to leave. I lose patience and check it out, but in doing so run into another player, an Assassin. He opens fire, so i have no choice but to return some, and i, for whatever reason, had better battlesense to move more, so i win. I dispatch him, take some stuff and decide to move on.

    Not even out the door when i see another player. I try to ask in Proximity chat if they’re cool, but they immediately shoot me. So i open fire, they take cover behind a rock and i hear them trying to heal, and i charge at them hoping to interrupt. They jump back and after a short gunfight, we both go down. I say on Prox “If you were cool, we’d both be walking away”. It’s at this exact moment i saw the prompt on my screen, that i remembered i took a self-revive from the last fight.

    I immediately administer the revive as he shouts “fuck you” over the comms, and I get up with what was probably the most unintentional bad manners i’ve ever done in a video game.

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