Reddit mentions of Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

> the north didnt fight the war out of love of black people. It was about changing economies and other political concerns. Thats why they had a vested interest in keeping southern whites in control of the social, political, and economic future of the south.

Not really though. You're right to say that it isn't the case that the north was without racist sin, it's almost as wrong to say that there was no difference in tone or degree between the regions. Or to say that there were no people driven by anti-racist morality to become abolitionists.

Your framing doesn't allow room for an early William Short or Noah Webster or Gilbert Imlay. (Though Imlay would spend much of his adult life in modern day Kentucky.)

It's perhaps more wrong to say 'white supremacy in the south was good for the north'. That leap of yours is pretty flimsy and doesn't bear out, and the analysis ignores the regional jockeying for congressional power.

edit: https://www.amazon.com/Bind-Apart-Enlightened-Americans-Segregation/dp/0465018416 You might be interested in reading this book, which just came out a few months ago.