[act-ma] CME SPECIAL EVENT! - Gerald Horne, The Dawning of the Apocalypse | Saturday, December 5 | 3:00 - 4:30 PM

[Center for Marxist Education]

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On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 at 15:07, Center for Marxist Education <
centermarxisteducation at gmail.com> wrote:

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> *CME SPECIAL EVENT!Saturday, December 5 | 3:00 - 4:30 PM*
> *Join Gerald Horne, discussing his latest work, The Dawning of the
> Apocalypse (Monthly Review Press, 2020)*
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> What is the history behind US settler colonialism’s exceptionally violent
> culture – and of the remarkable resistance to this culture? Working back
> century by century, noted historian Gerald Horne discusses his latest
> research in this special CME Zoom event.  Dr. Horne has authored more than
> 30 books, including 'The Counter-Revolution of 1776:  Slave Resistance and
> the Origins of the USA', and 'Paul Robeson:  The Artist as Revolutionary'.
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> Pre-order copies of *The Dawning of the Apocalypse* from the CME, and
> Gerald Horne will personally sign a special bookplate that can be pasted to
> the book. *Please contact us as soon as possible to place your order*:
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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 here 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.
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> 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 its revolting spawn that became the United States of America.
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