Although 1776 and the revolt against British rule leading to the founding of the USA has been thought widely to have planted the seeds of abolitionism, the fact is that the resultant Constitution protected enslaved property, just as the White House, the Supreme Court, and Congress were all dominated by enslavers—before the Civil War.
In this stirring and riveting account, Gerald Horne revises the traditional understanding of antebellum U.S. History as he paints a heroic picture of class struggle—by the enslaved and their numerous allies at home and abroad.