“The American Revolution was not revolutionary.” Since the colonial rebellion maintained the same slavery, wealth inequity, and power of White elites it had under Britain, was it just another war?
Watch what Kellie Carter Jackson, author of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance, has to say about what a true revolution accomplishes.
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by Kellie Carter Jackson, The Emancipator
July 3, 2024
Kellie Carter Jackson is the Michael and Denise Kellen ’68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, and the author of “Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence” and the newly published “We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance.” More by Kellie Carter Jackson
