How Colonialism and Slavery Divided America

This e-book explores how the decisions made during America's colonial period—the

embrace of slavery as an economic engine, the development of racially-based legal

systems, and the creation of starkly different regional economies—laid the groundwork for

a divided nation that would ultimately tear itself apart over slavery's continuation.

The question at the heart of American history becomes clear: could a nation truly united

exist when it was founded upon the enslavement of millions