American Revolution

This article previously appeared in Op-Ed News, Portside, and Black Agenda Report . This essay is from a chapter, “the Hidden History of the American Revolution”, in MythAmerica, a book Keith is writing. “I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.” – Marquis de Lafayette, French military leader who was instrumental in enlisting French support for the colonists in the American War of Independence. [Read More]

I. Introduction: The bourgeois revolution(s) and the American Revolution In the period stretching from the outbreak of the Seven Years’ War to the *coup d’état* that brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power in revolutionary France, the old order in Europe and North America gave up the ghost and passed away from the face of the earth. For the years between 1760 and 1800 were, as the liberal historian R. R. Palmer masterfully argued, the Age of the Democratic Revolution. [Read More]