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White Over Black

American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812

Winthrop D. Jordan

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/2013
Pages: 696
Subject: History, Social Science | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807838686

DESCRIPTION

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.

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