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The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism - The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean (Hardcover)
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The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism - The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean (Hardcover)
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Chronicles how American culture - deeply rooted in white supremacy,
slavery and capitalism - finds its origin story in the 17th century
European colonization of Africa and North America, exposing the
structural origins of American looting Virtually no part of the
modern United States--the economy, education, constitutional law,
religious institutions, sports, literature, economics, even protest
movements--can be understood without first understanding the
slavery and dispossession that laid its foundation. To that end,
historian Gerald Horne digs deeply into Europe's colonization of
Africa and the New World, when, from Columbus's arrival until the
Civil War, some 13 million Africans and some 5 million Native
Americans were forced to build and cultivate a society extolling
"liberty and justice for all." The seventeenth century was,
according to Horne, an era when the roots of slavery, white
supremacy, and capitalism became inextricably tangled into a
complex history involving war and revolts in Europe, England's
conquest of the Scots and Irish, the development of formidable new
weaponry able to ensure Europe's colonial dominance, the rebel
merchants of North America who created "these United States," and
the hordes of Europeans whose newfound opportunities in this "free"
land amounted to "combat pay" for their efforts as "white"
settlers. Centering his book on the Eastern Seaboard of North
America, the Caribbean, Africa, and what is now Great Britain,
Horne provides a deeply researched, harrowing account of the
apocalyptic loss and misery that likely has no parallel in human
history. The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism is an essential book
that will not allow history to be told by the victors. It is
especially needed now, in the age of Trump. For it has never been
more vital, Horne writes, "to shed light on the contemporary moment
wherein it appears that these malevolent forces have received a new
lease on life."
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