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Second edition /. / with new forewords by Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xl, 651 pages) : map |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill." |
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Originally published: 1968. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 610-614) and index. |
| Contents |
Genesis, 1550-1700 First impressions : initial English confrontation with Africans -- Blackness without -- Causes of complexion -- Defective religion -- Savage behavior -- Apes of Africa -- Libidinous men -- Blackness within -- Unthinking decision : enslavement of Negroes in America to 1700 -- Necessities of a new world Freedom and bondage in the English tradition -- Concept of slavery -- Practices of Portingals and Spanyards -- Enslavement : the West Indies -- Enslavement : New England -- Enslavement : Virginia and Maryland -- Enslavement : New York and the Carolinas -- Un-English : Scots, Irish, and Indians -- Racial slavery : from reasons to rationale -- Provincial decades, 1700-1755. Anxious oppressors : freedom and control in a slave society -- Demographic configurations in the colonies -- Slavery and the senses of the laws -- Slave rebelliousness and white mastery -- Free Negroes and fears of freedom -- Racial slavery in a free society -- Fruits of passion : the dynamics of interracial sex -- Regional styles in racial intermixture -- Masculine and feminine modes in Carolina and America -- Negro sexuality and slave insurrection -- Dismemberment, physiology, and sexual perceptions -- Secularization of reproduction -- Mulatto offspring in a biracial society -- Souls of men : the Negro's spiritual nature -- Christian principles and the failure of conversion -- Question of Negro capacity -- Spiritual equality and temporal subordination Thin edge of antislavery Inclusion and exclusion in the Protestant churches Religious revival and the impact of conversion -- Bodies of men : the Negro's physical nature -- Confusion, order, and hierarchy -- Negroes, apes, and beasts -- Rational science and irrational logic -- Indians, Africans, and the complexion of man -- Valuation of color -- Negroes under the skin -- Revolutionary era, 1755-1783. Self-scrutiny in the Revolutionary era -- Quaker conscience and consciousness -- Discovery of prejudice -- Assertions of sameness -- Environmentalism and revolutionary ideology -- Secularization of equality -- Proslavery case of Negro inferiority -- Revolution as turning point -- Society and thought, 1783-1812 -- Imperatives of economic interest and national identity -- Economics of slavery -- Union and sectionalism -- A national forum for debate -- Nationhood and identity -- Non-English Englishmen -- Limitations of antislavery -- Pattern of antislavery -- Failings of revolutionary ideology -- Quaker view beyond emancipation -- Religious equalitarianism -- Humanitarianism and sentimentality -- Success and failure of antislavery -- Cancer of revolution -- St. Domingo -- Non-importation of rebellion -- Contagion of liberty -- Slave disobedience in America -- Impact of Negro revolt -- Resulting pattern of separation -- Hardening of slavery -- Restraint of free Negroes -- New walls of separation -- Negro churches -- Thought and society, 1783-1812-- Thomas Jefferson : self and society -- Jefferson : the tyranny of slavery -- Jefferson : the assertion of Negro inferiority -- Issue of intellect -- Acclaim of talented Negroes -- Jefferson : passionate realities -- Jefferson : white women and black -- Interracial sex : the individual and his society -- Jefferson : a dichotomous view of triracial America -- Negro bound by the chain of being -- Linnaean categories and the chain of being -- Two modes of equality -- Hierarchies of men -- Anatomical investigations -- Unlinking and linking the chain -- Faithful philosophy in defense of human unity -- Study of man in the republic -- Erasing nature's stamp of color -- Nature's blackball -- Effects of climate and civilization -- Disease of color -- White Negroes -- Logic of blackness and inner similarity -- Winds of change -- An end to environmentalism -- Persistent themes -- Toward a white man's country -- Emancipation and intermixture -- Beginning of colonization -- Virginia Program ; Insurrection and expatriation in Virginia -- Meaning of Negro removal -- Exodus. Note on the concept of race. |
| Summary |
Winthrop Jordan sets out in encyclopaedic 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 reminds us that this 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 this work; all are judged in comparison to it; none has surpassed it. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slavery -- United States -- History.
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Slavery. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
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African Americans. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1863 |
| Subject |
United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jordan, Winthrop D. White over black. Second edition /. 9780807834022 (DLC) 2012376597 (OCoLC)753000856 |
| ISBN |
9781469600765 (electronic book) |
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1469600765 (electronic book) |
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9780807834022 |
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0807834025 |
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9780807871416 |
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0807871419 |
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