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
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
