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https://web.archive.org/web/20240708163741/https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-809171

I really recommend The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne, it presents a very compelling bit of research into the pressure of burgeoning abolition on the 1776 “revolution.” Abolition in totality may have been “a long ways off,” but Britain had already started major court proceedings that paved the way, as well as begun arming African regiments in the military to combat France and Spain, which was a source of major unrest amongst the slave-owning American colonists. It’s worth noting that the “Stamp Act” and other such “taxation” acts that American foundation myth loves to talk about, was in no small part an effort to curb the quickly-growing privatized slave industry and the tax on slaves was one of the largest component of these tax reforms.

Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff is not an explicitly anti-imperialist perspective, but the book details the process by which privatization and American regulation strangled its potential in service of corporate profit. (including the privatization of those vital parts of internet infrastructure that were previously owned by the DoD)