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The Dawning of the Apocalypse - The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Dawning of the Apocalypse - The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century (Hardcover)
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August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619, when what
was said to be the first arrival of enslaved Africans occurred in
North America. Yet in the 1520s, the Spanish, from their imperial
perch in Santo Domingo, had already brought enslaved Africans to
what was to become South Carolina. The enslaved people quickly
defected to local Indigenous populations, and compelled their
captors to flee. Deploying such illuminating research, The Dawning
of the Apocalypse is a riveting revision of the "creation myth" of
settler colonialism and how the United States was formed. Here,
Gerald Horne argues forcefully that, in order to understand the
arrival of colonists from the British Isles in the early
seventeenth century, one must first understand the "long sixteenth
century"-from 1492 until the arrival of settlers in Virginia in
1607. During this prolonged century, Horne contends, "whiteness"
morphed into "white supremacy," and allowed England to co-opt not
only religious minorities but also various nationalities throughout
Europe, thus forging a muscular bloc that was needed to confront
rambunctious Indigenes and Africans. In retelling the bloodthirsty
story of the invasion of the Americas, Horne recounts how the
fierce resistance by Africans and their Indigenous allies weakened
Spain and enabled London to dispatch settlers to Virginia in 1607.
These settlers laid the groundwork for the British Empire and what
became the United States of America.
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