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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation 

by Nicholas Guyatt

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

Publisher

Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group

Publication date

2016

Format

Print edition

Pages

403

ISBN

9780465018413