The Vanguard of Anti-Imperialism Gerald Horne is an historian
who has been revealing neglected aspects of African American
history for several decades, particularly those relating to
class struggle, communism, and what W E B Du Bois referred to as
the global ‘colour line’. In The Deepest South, he disclosed the
efforts by Deep South slavers to form a pact with Brazil and
build a southern empire that would protect white supremacy. At
the same time, he revealed, Lincoln and the northern
establishment looked toward schemes that would result in the
removal of former slaves from the United States, perhaps to
indentured plantations in the British Empire. Again, in The
White Pacific, he followed the trail of former slave-owners as
they set out across the Pacific, to Australasia and the Pacific
Islands, where they engaged in a form of slavery known as
‘blackbirding’. In Cold War in a Hot Zone, he demonstrated the
links between African American struggles during the Cold War and
militancy in the Caribbean as the Britis