White over Black : American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 / Winthrop D. Jordan
- Author
- Jordan, Winthrop D.
- Published
- Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Edition
- 2nd ed. / with new forewords by Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood.
- Physical Description
- xl, 651 pages : map ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
- Contents
- Genesis, 1550-1700. First impressions : initial English confrontation with Africans. The blackness without ; The causes of complexion ; Defective religion ; Savage behavior ; The apes of Africa ; Libidinous men ; The blackness within -- Unthinking decision : enslavement of Negroes in America to 1700. The necessities of a new world ; Freedom and bondage in the English tradition ; The concept of slavery ; The practices of Portingals and Spanyards ; Enslavement : the West Indies ; Enslavement : New England ; Enslavement : Virginia and Maryland ; Enslavement : New York and the Carolinas ; The 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 ; The secularization of reproduction ; Mulatto offspring in a biracial society -- The souls of men : the Negro's spiritual nature. Christian principles and the failure of conversion ; The question of Negro capacity ; Spiritual equality and temporal subordination ; The thin edge of antislavery ; Inclusion and exclusion in the Protestant churches ; Religious revival and the impact of conversion -- The 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 ; The valuation of color ; Negroes under the skin -- The Revolutionary era, 1755-1783. Self-scrutiny in the Revolutionary era. Quaker conscience and consciousness ; The discovery of prejudice ; Assertions of sameness ; Environmentalism and revolutionary ideology ; The secularization of equality ; The proslavery case of Negro inferiority ; The revolution as turning point -- Society and thought, 1783-1812. The imperatives of economic interest and national identity. The economics of slavery ; Union and sectionalism ; A national forum for debate ; Nationhood and identity ; Non-English Englishmen -- The limitations of antislavery. The pattern of antislavery ; The failings of revolutionary ideology ; The Quaker view beyond emancipation ; Religious equalitarianism ; Humanitarianism and sentimentality ; The success and failure of antislavery -- The cancer of revolution. St. Domingo ; Non-importation of rebellion ; The contagion of liberty ; Slave disobedience in America ; The impact of Negro revolt -- The resulting pattern of separation. The 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 ; The issue of intellect ; The 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 -- The Negro bound by the chain of being. Linnaean categories and the chain of being ; Two modes of equality ; The hierarchies of men ; Anatomical investigations ; Unlinking and linking the chain ; Faithful philosophy in defense of human unity ; The study of man in the republic -- Erasing nature's stamp of color. Nature's blackball ; The effects of climate and civilization ; The disease of color ; White Negroes ; The logic of blackness and inner similarity ; The winds of change ; An end to environmentalism ; Persistent themes -- Toward a white man's country. Emancipation and intermixture ; The beginning of colonization ; The Virginia Program ; Insurrection and expatriation in Virginia ; The meaning of Negro removal -- Exodus. Note on the concept of race.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780807834022 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807871416 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807834025 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807871419 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Note
- "Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Originally published: 1968. - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 586-614) and index.
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