Racial Consciousness and Nation-Building in the Early Republic
by
David Brion Davis, Lacy K. Ford Jr., Jon Gjerde
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
By 1840, American politics was a paradox—unprecedented freedom and equality for men of European descent, and the simultaneous isolation and degradation of people of African and Native American descent. Historians have characterized this phenomenon as the "white republic."
Race and the...