Episode 096: Nicholas Guyatt, The Origins of Racial Segregation in the United StatesPosted in Audio, History, Interviews, Media Archive, Native Americans/First Nation, United States on 2016-08-23 21:25Z by Steven |
Episode 096: Nicholas Guyatt, The Origins of Racial Segregation in the United States
Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History
2016-08-22
Liz Covart, Host and Historian
Boston, Massachusetts
Ever wonder how the United States’ problem with race developed and why early American reformers didn’t find a way to fix it during the earliest days of the republic?
Today, Nicholas Guyatt, author of Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation, leads us on an exploration of how and why the idea of separate but equal developed in the early United States.
During our investigation, Nick reveals the demographics of the United States after the War for Independence; The early American problem of racial integration; And how and why early American reformers invented the idea of racial segregation.