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White Over Black

Winthrop D. Jordan

How did Englishmen who first met Africans as another sort of men come to build racial slavery in America?

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Winthrop D. Jordan

Why read it

  • You will notice how skin color was the first thing English travelers saw, and how that first impression stuck
  • You will learn why settlers who would not apply slavery to any European did apply it to Africans, and what that reveals
  • You will understand how the Revolution made Americans see that slavery rested on their own assessment of Africans

Who it is for

  • A reader trying to understand the roots of American racism
  • A history student comparing the Caribbean, Virginia and New England
  • A teacher looking for a long view of slavery's origins

Contents

  1. FOREWORD
  2. FOREWORD
  3. PREFACE
  4. PART ONE GENESIS 1550–1700
  5. I FIRST IMPRESSIONS
  6. II UNTHINKING DECISION
  7. PART TWO PROVINCIAL DECADES 1700–1755
  8. III ANXIOUS OPPRESSORS
  9. IV FRUITS OF PASSION
  10. V THE SOULS OF MEN
  11. VI THE BODIES OF MEN
  12. PART THREE THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA 1755–1783
  13. VII SELF-SCRUTINY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA
  14. PART FOUR SOCIETY AND THOUGHT 1783–1812
  15. VIII THE IMPERATIVES OF ECONOMIC INTEREST AND NATIONAL IDENTITY
  16. IX THE LIMITATIONS OF ANTISLAVERY
  17. X THE CANCER OF REVOLUTION
  18. XI THE RESULTING PATTERN OF SEPARATION
  19. PART FIVE THOUGHT AND SOCIETY 1783–1812
  20. XII THOMAS JEFFERSON
  21. XIII THE NEGRO BOUND BY THE CHAIN OF BEING
  22. XIV ERASING NATURE’S STAMP OF COLOR
  23. XV TOWARD A WHITE MAN’S COUNTRY
  24. EPILOGUE
  25. XVI EXODUS
  26. NOTE ON THE CONCEPT OF RACE
  27. ESSAY ON SOURCES
  28. SELECT LIST OF FULL TITLES

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