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Bind Us Apart : How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (417 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780192516619
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bind Us ApartDDC classification:
  • 305.800973
LOC classification:
  • E184.A1.G893 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Maps -- Introduction: The Prehistory of "Separate But Equal" -- Part I: Degradation -- One: Becoming Good Citizens -- Two: A Few Bad Men -- Three: Correcting Ill Habits -- Four: One Nation Only -- Part II: Amalgamation -- Five: To the Middle Ground -- Six: We Shall All Be Americans -- Seven: The Practical Amalgamator -- Part III: Colonization -- Eight: Of Color and Country -- Nine: The Choice -- Ten: Opening the Road -- Eleven: In These Deserts -- Epilogue: An Enterprise For The Young -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: The study of USA's on-going failure to achieve true racial integration, Bind Us Apart shows how, from the Revolution through to the Civil War, white American anti-slavery reformers failed to forge a colour-blind society.
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Cover -- Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Maps -- Introduction: The Prehistory of "Separate But Equal" -- Part I: Degradation -- One: Becoming Good Citizens -- Two: A Few Bad Men -- Three: Correcting Ill Habits -- Four: One Nation Only -- Part II: Amalgamation -- Five: To the Middle Ground -- Six: We Shall All Be Americans -- Seven: The Practical Amalgamator -- Part III: Colonization -- Eight: Of Color and Country -- Nine: The Choice -- Ten: Opening the Road -- Eleven: In These Deserts -- Epilogue: An Enterprise For The Young -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

The study of USA's on-going failure to achieve true racial integration, Bind Us Apart shows how, from the Revolution through to the Civil War, white American anti-slavery reformers failed to forge a colour-blind society.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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