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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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    After 6 months of him being gone, out on the streets (because the pigs took our home i.e. my van right after I lost him, so until I got my current van I had no place for him to live, so like, why bother looking for him?), I finally got my cat, Johnathon (yes, that is how his name is spelled) back. He’s white with orange splotches and kind of a tabby-looking tail. He has the sweetest most angelic-sounding meow.

    I got an email from the Humane Society a couple days after I bought my van, saying that someone found him (he’s chipped). But it took probably at least a month after that. The people who found him were difficult. I had to remind them, twice, that they have no fucking right to give my cat away to someone else. And then they had the fucking nerve to tell me not to stay in the neighborhood (the neighborhood where I have been parking/camping for years) because if he gets out again he’ll go right back to that house and they’re “not doing this again.” What a load of shit.

    Anyways, I was expecting it to take him longer to acclimate to the van and uh, like me and stuff. But last night he came out from under my bed and kind of cuddled with me and explored the van a bit while I was asleep.

    I need to get this harness on him though and he absolutely refuses. If I touch him the wrong way he punches me. He doesn’t hiss. I know it’s probably more like him swiping his claw at me but it’s all a blur and it feels like he’s punching me lol.