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Bind us apart : how enlightened Americans invented racial segregation /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Guyatt, Nicholas, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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