美国革命是一场反革命吗?——评《1776年的反革命:奴隶反抗与美国的起源》

Is the American Revolution a Counter-Revolution?A Review of the Counter-Revolution of 1776:Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

激进的美国黑人左派学者杰拉尔德·霍恩的著作《1776年的反革命:奴隶反抗与美国的起源》,利用大量一手资料,采取跨国视角,认为美国革命是在北美大陆的白人殖民者保护奴隶制的保守努力,是一场反革命。霍恩的黑人身份、独特的经历和他的激进主义,促使他提出了与美国主流学术完全不同的关于美国革命的新观点。但是,霍恩的著作存在着严重的时空错置问题,没有把历史人物和历史事件放在当时的时空背景下去理解,因此矫枉过正。

Gerald Horne is a radical African American left scholar. He published the Counter-Revolution of 1776： Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America recently. The book used a lot of primary sources and transnational means, revisited the heroic creation myth of the United States of America, argued that American revolution was a counter-revolution. African-American Identity, special experience, and the radicalism of Home prompted him to advance the new opinion. But his book was anachronistic, Home did not understand historical figures and events under the context of the day, so his argument went too far.