Tag: Abolition

Her Majesty’s African-American Allies: A review by Gerald Horne

Her Majesty’s African-American Allies: A review by Gerald Horne

It is well-established that African-Americans have sought allies abroad as a way to weaken opposition at home. Often, scholars have tackled this important topic as it manifested during the Cold War. The work at hand emulates previous scholarship in detailing this trend during the antebellum and early postbellum era…

Watch: On NYT’s ‘ransom of Haiti’ (Horne on ‘Democracy Now!’)

Watch: On NYT’s ‘ransom of Haiti’ (Horne on ‘Democracy Now!’)

Says Horne: The New York Times series, “The Ransom,” will “hopefully cause us to reexamine the history of this country and move away from the propaganda point that somehow the United States was an abolitionist republic when actually it was the foremost slaveholder’s republic….”