096 The Origins of Racial Segregation in the United States Ben Franklin's World

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.
Show Notes: http://www.benfranklinsworld.com/096
 
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