The Counterrevolution of 1776 w/ Gerald Horne
Guerrilla History
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4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we close out Black History Month with a very special guest, the great Professor Gerald Horne. In this episode, we talk about heroic creation myths of the United States, and the actual history in order to deconstruct these myths. This episode will be largely based on Gerald's books The Counterrevolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long 16th Century, and The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean.
Gerald Horne is the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. His research interests are unbelievably varied, encompassing biographies of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson, to The Haitian Revolution, to Hollywood in the '30s-'50s, to Jazz and Justice. Be sure to check out his bibliography, you're certain to find something that interests you!
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| 0:00.0 | You remember Den Ben Boo? |
| 0:09.0 | No! |
| 0:10.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:14.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:27.3 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm your host, Henry Hukamaki, joined by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and |
| 0:44.2 | director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are |
| 0:49.1 | you doing today? Terrific. So happy to be here with you, Henry. I'm always glad to see you, Adnan. Always glad to see you. And also, I'm joined by Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, Brett. How is it going there? Any more snow recently? Yeah, more snow every day, it feels like, but I'm incredibly excited to have this conversation with Gerald Horn. I couldn't agree more. Our guest today is, as Brett just said, is Professor Gerald Horn, who's a |
| 1:16.5 | historian. He's actually the chair of the history in African American Studies Department at the |
| 1:20.4 | University of Houston and really one of the great public intellectuals that we have in the United |
| 1:26.1 | States right now. And I don't mean that |
| 1:28.9 | lightly. I really do think that Gerald Horn is one of our foremost intellectuals and somebody that, |
| 1:34.6 | if you're not aware of him already listeners, prepare yourself for an excellent conversation |
| 1:41.2 | that's sure to come and be ready to open your pocketbook |
| 1:45.2 | and get a few of his books because you're certainly going to want them. But Adnan, let's start |
| 1:50.2 | with you. You've actually interviewed Professor Horne a few times before on the David Feldman show, |
| 1:56.5 | and you were the one who contacted him to come on to Gorilla History. So why don't you introduce the books that we're really going to be focusing on here? |
| 2:05.2 | Of course, Gerald Horn's written almost 40 books at this point, but we're going to focus on a few. |
| 2:10.3 | Why don't you introduce these books and talk about perhaps why we're going to be looking at these books? |
| 2:16.7 | Well, the 1776 Commission published a report, and we had a chance to tear to shreds |
| 2:27.0 | for the rank abuse of history that it was, and it just reminded us of how much we have invested in |
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