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- White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
summary
In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmen's and Anglo-Americans' perceptions of blacks, perceptions of difference used to justify race-based slavery, and liberty and justice for whites only. This second edition, with new forewords by historians Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood, reminds us that Jordan's text is still the definitive work on the history of race in America in the colonial era. Every book published to this day on slavery and racism builds upon his work; all are judged in comparison to it; none has surpassed it.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxxv-xxxvi
- Part One. Genesis 1550–1700
- Part Two. Provincial Decades 1700–1755
- Part Three. The Revolutionary Era 1755–1783
- VII. Self-Scrutiny in the Revolutionary Era
- pp. 269-312
- Part Four. Society and Thought 1783–1812
- IX. The Limitations of Antislavery
- pp. 342-374
- X. The Cancer of Revolution
- pp. 375-402
- XI. The Resulting Pattern of Separation
- pp. 403-426
- Part Five. Thought and Society 1783–1812
- XII. Thomas Jefferson: Self and Society
- pp. 429-481
- XIII. The Negro Bound by the Chain of Being
- pp. 482-511
- XIV. Erasing Nature's Stamp of Color
- pp. 512-541
- XV. Toward a White Man's Country
- pp. 542-570
- Epilogue
- XVI. Exodus
- pp. 573-582
- Note on the Concept of Race
- pp. 583-585
- Essay on Sources
- pp. 586-609
- Select List of Full Titles
- pp. 610-616
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469600765
Related ISBN(s)
9780807834022, 9780807838686, 9780807871416, 9798890885937
MARC Record
OCLC
861793501
Pages
696
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No