Guyatt, Nicholas.

Bind Us Apart : How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (417 pages)

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.

9780192516619


Racism--United States--History.


Electronic books.

E184.A1.G893 2016

305.800973