Annette Gordon-Reed on the Dark Side of the American Story
Briefly

"You can't say this isn't America, because this is," she observed, highlighting how current political issues rooted in racial hatred are historical in nature.
Parkinson's thesis, which I think he demonstrates very well, is that one of the ways that they bound themselves together was by exploiting racial differences.
This classic book by Morgan identifies a paradox in American history: how freedom and slavery coexisted in a nation proclaiming liberty for all.
Read at The New Yorker
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