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Bind Us Apart - How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation (Hardcover)
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Bind Us Apart - How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation (Hardcover)
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The surprising and counterintuitive origins of America's racial
crisis Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and
Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created
equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex
and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues
that, from the Revolution through the Civil War, most white
liberals believed in the unity of all human beings. But their
philosophy faltered when it came to the practical work of forging a
colour-blind society. Unable to convince others - and themselves -
that racial mixing was viable, white reformers began instead to
claim that people of colour could only thrive in separate
republics: in Native states in the American West or in the West
African colony of Liberia. Herein lie the origins of "separate but
equal." Decades before Reconstruction, America's liberal elite was
unable to imagine how people of colour could become citizens of the
United States. Throughout the nineteenth century, Native Americans
were pushed farther and farther westward, while four million slaves
freed after the Civil War found themselves among a white population
that had spent decades imagining that they would live somewhere
else.
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