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CHAPTER 14 RACIAL INEQUALITY
CHAPTER 14 RACIAL INEQUALITY Final Draft, August 2009 Race and RACIAL INEQUALITY have powerfully shaped American history from its beginnings. Americans like to think of the founding of the American colonies and, later, the United States, as driven by the quest for freedom initially, religious liberty and later political and economic liberty. Yet, from the start, American society was equally founded on brutal forms of domination, INEQUALITY and oppression which involved the absolute denial of freedom for slaves. This is one of the great paradoxes of American history how could the ideals of equality and freedom coexist with slavery? We live with the ramifications of that paradox even today.
Racial conflict eventually tore apart the agrarian unity of the Populists and contributed to the decline of the movement overall. • Throughout the late 19th century and the first part of the twentieth century employers used racial minorities as strike breakers in industrial strikes. This significantly weakened
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