The Seven Deadly Sins of American Democracy: The Legacy of Slavery

The book is a well-researched political-social history of racism and prejudice in America that began well before the founding of the country. The focus is on the experience of the African-American but shows how those biases, once entrenched, can be extended to other minority groups and to those not in the mainstream of society.
The thesis is that at the founding of the United States of America, the Fathers of the Republic, by their failure to address and resolve the issue of enforced servit...