White over black : American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 / / Winthrop D. Jordan ; with new forewords by Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood

• Autore: Jordan Winthrop D.
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2012; ©2012
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (692 p.)
• Disciplina: 973/.0496073
• Soggetto topico: Slavery - United States - History; African Americans - History - To 1863
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): BrownChristopher Leslie; WoodPeter H.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 610-614) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Table of Contents; Foreword; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One. Genesis 1550-1700; I. FIRST IMPRESSIONS: INITIAL ENGLISH CONFRONTATION WITH AFRICANS; 1) The Blackness Without; 2) The Causes of Complexion; 3) Defective Religion; 4) Savage Behavior; 5) The Apes of Africa; 6) Libidinous Men; 7) The Blackness Within; II. UNTHINKING DECISION: ENSLAVEMENT OF NEGROES IN AMERICA TO 1700; 1) The Necessities of a New World; 2) Freedom and Bondage in the English Tradition; 3) The Concept of Slavery; 4) The Practices of Portingals and Spanyards; 5) Enslavement: The West Indies ; 6) Enslavement: New England7) Enslavement: Virginia and Maryland; 8) Enslavement: New York and the Carolinas; 9) The Un-English: Scots, Irish, and Indians; 10) Racial Slavery: From Reasons to Rationale; Part Two. Provincial Decades 1700-1755; III. ANXIOUS OPPRESSORS: FREEDOM AND CONTROL IN A SLAVE SOCIETY; 1) Demographic Configurations in the Colonies; 2) Slavery and the Senses of the Laws; 3) Slave Rebelliousness and White Mastery; 4) Free Negroes and Fears of Freedom; 5) Racial Slavery in a Free Society; IV. FRUITS OF PASSION: THE DYNAMICS OF INTERRACIAL SEX ; 1) Regional Styles in Racial Intermixture2) Masculine and Feminine Modes in Carolina and America; 3) Negro Sexuality and Slave Insurrection; 4) Dismemberment, Physiology, and Sexual Perceptions; 5) The Secularization of Reproduction; 6) Mulatto Offspring in a Biracial Society; V. THE SOULS OF MEN: THE NEGRO'S SPIRITUAL NATURE; 1) Christian Principles and the Failure of Conversion; 2) The Question of Negro Capacity; 3) Spiritual Equality and Temporal Subordination; 4) The Thin Edge of Antislavery; 5) Inclusion and Exclusion in the Protestant Churches ; 6) Religious Revival and the Impact of ConversionVI. THE BODIES OF MEN: THE NEGRO'S PHYSICAL NATURE; 1) Confusion, Order, and Hierarchy; 2) Negroes, Apes, and Beasts; 3) Rational Science and Irrational Logic; 4) Indians, Africans, and the Complexion of Man; 5) The Valuation of Color; 6) Negroes Under the Skin; Part Three. The Revolutionary Era 1755-1783; VII. SELF-SCRUTINY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA; 1) Quaker Conscience and Consciousness; 2) The Discovery of Prejudice; 3) Assertions of Sameness; 4) Environmentalism and Revolutionary Ideology; 5) The Secularization of Equality ; 6) The Proslavery Case for Negro Inferiority7) The Revolution as Turning Point; Part Four. Society and Thought 1783-1812; VIII. THE IMPERATIVES OF ECONOMIC INTEREST AND NATIONAL IDENTITY; 1) The Economics of Slavery; 2) Union and Sectionalism; 3) A National Forum for Debate; 4) Nationhood and Identity; 5) Non-English Englishmen; IX. THE LIMITATIONS OF ANTISLAVERY; 1) The Pattern of Antislavery; 2) The Failings of Revolutionary Ideology; 3) The Quaker View Beyond Emancipation; 4) Religious Equalitarianism; 5) Humanitarianism and Sentimentality; 6) The Success and Failure of Antislavery ; X. THE CANCER OF REVOLUTION
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: White over black
• ISBN: 0-8078-3868-3; 1-4696-0076-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464320903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia