White over Black
by Jordan, Winthrop D.; Brown, Christopher Leslie; Wood, Peter H.Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-02-06
Publisher(s): Omohundro Inst of Early Amer
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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 a new foreword by Christopher Leslie Brown, 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.
Author Biography
Winthrop D. Jordan (1931-2007) taught history at the University of Mississippi. His books include Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy and White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States. Christopher Leslie Brown is professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author of Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, for which he won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Peter H. Wood is professor of history emeritus at Duke University and author of Strange New Land: African Americans, 1526-1776, among other books.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Foreword | p. xvii |
| Preface | p. xxvii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xxxv |
| Genesis 1550-1700 | |
| First Impressions: Initial English Confrontation with Africans | p. 3 |
| The Blackness Without | p. 4 |
| The Causes of Complexion | p. 11 |
| Defective Religion | p. 20 |
| Savage Behavior | p. 24 |
| The Apes of Africa | p. 28 |
| Libidinous Men | p. 32 |
| The Blackness Within | p. 40 |
| Unthinking Decision: Enslavement of Negroes in America to 1700 | p. 44 |
| The Necessities of a New World | p. 45 |
| Freedom and Bondage in the English Tradition | p. 48 |
| The Concept of Slavery | p. 52 |
| The Practices of Portingals and Spanyards | p. 56 |
| Enslavement: The West Indies | p. 63 |
| Enslavement: New England | p. 66 |
| Enslavement: Virginia and Maryland | p. 71 |
| Enslavement: New York and the Carolinas | p. 83 |
| The Un-English: Scots, Irish, and Indians | p. 85 |
| Racial Slavery: From Reasons to Rationale | p. 91 |
| Provincial Decades 1700-1755 | |
| Anxious Oppressors: Freedom and Control in a Slave Society | p. 101 |
| Demographic Configurations in the Colonies | p. 102 |
| Slavery and the Senses of the Laws | p. 103 |
| Slave Rebelliousness and White Mastery | p. 110 |
| Free Negroes and Fears of Freedom | p. 122 |
| Racial Slavery in a Free Society | p. 128 |
| Fruits of Passion: The Dynamics of Interracial Sex | p. 136 |
| Regional Styles in Racial Intermixture | p. 137 |
| Masculine and Feminine Modes in Carolina and America | p. 144 |
| Negro Sexuality and Slave Insurrection | p. 150 |
| Dismemberment, Physiology, and Sexual Perceptions | p. 154 |
| The Secularization of Reproduction | p. 164 |
| Mulatto Offspring in a Biracial Society | p. 167 |
| The Souls of Men: The Negro's Spiritual Nature | p. 179 |
| Christian Principles and the Failure of Conversion | p. 180 |
| The Question of Negro Capacity | p. 187 |
| Spiritual Equality and Temporal Subordination | p. 190 |
| The Thin Edge of Antislavery | p. 193 |
| Inclusion and Exclusion in the Protestant Churches | p. 198 |
| Religious Revival and the Impact of Conversion | p. 212 |
| The Bodies of Men: The Negro's Physical Nature | p. 216 |
| Confusion, Order, and Hierarchy | p. 217 |
| Negroes, Apes, and Beasts | p. 228 |
| Rational Science and Irrational Logic | p. 234 |
| Indians, Africans, and the Complexion of Man | p. 239 |
| The Valuation of Color | p. 252 |
| Negroes Under the Skin | p. 259 |
| The Revolutionary Era 1755-1783 | |
| Self-Scrutiny in the Revolutionary Era | p. 269 |
| Quaker Conscience and Consciousness | p. 271 |
| The Discovery of Prejudice | p. 276 |
| Assertions of Sameness | p. 281 |
| Environmentalism and Revolutionary Ideology | p. 287 |
| The Secularization of Equality | p. 294 |
| The Proslavery Case for Negro Inferiority | p. 304 |
| The Revolution as Turning Point | p. 308 |
| Society and Thought 1783-1812 | |
| The Imperatives of Economic Interest and National Identity | p. 315 |
| The Economics of Slavery | p. 316 |
| Union and Sectionalism | p. 321 |
| A National Forum for Debate | p. 325 |
| Nationhood and Identity | p. 331 |
| Non-English Englishmen | p. 335 |
| The Limitations of Antislavery | p. 342 |
| The Pattern of Antislavery | p. 343 |
| The Failings of Revolutionary Ideology | p. 349 |
| The Quaker View Beyond Emancipation | p. 356 |
| Religious Equalitarianism | p. 361 |
| Humanitarianism and Sentimentality | p. 365 |
| The Success and Failure of Antislavery | p. 372 |
| The Cancer of Revolution | p. 375 |
| St. Domingo | p. 375 |
| Non-Importation of Rebellion | p. 380 |
| The Contagion of Liberty | p. 386 |
| Slave Disobedience in America | p. 391 |
| The Impact of Negro Revolt | p. 399 |
| The Resulting Pattern of Separation | p. 403 |
| The Hardening of Slavery | p. 403 |
| Restraint of Free Negroes | p. 406 |
| New Walls of Separation | p. 414 |
| Negro Churches | p. 422 |
| Thought and Society 1783-1812 | |
| Thomas Jefferson: Self and Society | p. 429 |
| Jefferson: The Tyranny of Slavery | p. 430 |
| Jefferson: The Assertion of Negro Inferiority | p. 435 |
| The Issue of Intellect | p. 440 |
| The Acclaim of Talented Negroes | p. 445 |
| Jefferson: Passionate Realities | p. 457 |
| Jefferson: White Women and Black | p. 461 |
| Interracial Sex: The Individual and His Society | p. 469 |
| Jefferson: A Dichotomous View of Triracial America | p. 475 |
| The Negro Bound by the Chain of Being | p. 482 |
| Linnaean Categories and the Chain of Being | p. 483 |
| Two Modes of Equality | p. 486 |
| The Hierarchies of Men | p. 491 |
| Anatomical Investigations | p. 497 |
| Unlinking and Linking the Chain | p. 502 |
| Faithful Philosophy in Defense of Human Unity | p. 506 |
| The Study of Man in the Republic | p. 509 |
| Erasing Nature's Stamp of Color | p. 512 |
| Nature's Blackball | p. 512 |
| The Effects of Climate and Civilization | p. 513 |
| The Disease of Color | p. 517 |
| White Negroes | p. 521 |
| The Logic of Blackness and Inner Similarity | p. 525 |
| The Winds of Change | p. 530 |
| An End to Environmentalism | p. 533 |
| Persistent Themes | p. 538 |
| Toward a White Man's Country | p. 542 |
| Emancipation and Intermixture | p. 542 |
| The Beginning of Colonization | p. 546 |
| The Virginia Program | p. 551 |
| Insurrection and Expatriation in Virginia | p. 560 |
| The Meaning of Negro Removal | p. 565 |
| Epilogue | |
| Exodus | p. 573 |
| Note on the Concept of Race | p. 583 |
| Essay on Sources | p. 586 |
| Select List of Full Titles | p. 610 |
| Map: Percentage of Negroes in Total Non-Aboriginal Population, 1700 | p. 615 |
| Index | p. 617 |
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