No More Peace

Abolition War and Counterrevolution

Oliver Baker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

346 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40183-9 (ISBN)

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Racial capitalism is and was not inevitable. At every point in US history, the exploited and dispossessed rebelled for an alternative future. In No More Peace, Oliver Baker highlights how numerous insurrections, revolts, and armed campaigns of enslaved and colonized people advanced abolition war as the movement to win collective life over class society in North America. From this aim, abolition war became the motor force for constant white counterrevolution. This puts America's history of class struggles in a revealing new light. Through historical analysis, literary critique, and theory, Baker shows how Black and Indigenous rebels developed insights about counterrevolution precisely through their militant confrontation with it. Unearthing these critical insights, Baker shows how US capitalism was reproduced and expanded through the long history of white counterrevolution. Whiteness and settler colonialism developed as anti-Black and anti-Indigenous alliances formed across class difference to organize people to police or soldier for capitalism. In No More Peace, we relive moments of radical abolition and anticolonialism—particularly those of Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, and the Seminoles—that also ruptured counterrevolution. Slavery and settler colonialism were always uncertain projects—vulnerable to defeat, collapse, and ruin by those who resisted. Racial capitalism was always contingent.

Oliver Baker is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University.

Contents

Introduction. Abolition War and White Counterrevolution: Class Struggles of Antebellum Racial Capitalism
1. Slave Revolt, Fugitivity, and White Alliance Policing
2. Anticolonial War and Settler Mass Militarism
3. White Insurgency: Industrializing Capital and Counterrevolution
4. Abolition Shoots Back: John Brown, Osborne Anderson, Harriet Tubman, and Black Revolution
Conclusion. White Counterrevolution Today: Crisis, Repression, and Insurgent Fascism

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.02.2025
Zusatzinfo	15 b-w images
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-40183-2 / 0520401832
ISBN-13	978-0-520-40183-9 / 9780520401839
Zustand	Neuware