Red, White, and Black

by Nash, Gary B.

• ISBN13: 9780205692378
• ISBN10: 0205692370
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-03
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Written by highly acclaimed historian Gary B. Nash, this text presents an interpretive account of the interactions between Native Americans, African Americans, and Euroamericans during the colonial and revolutionary eras.It reveals the crucial interconnections between North America's many peoples, illustrating the ease of their interactions in the first two centuries of European and African presence, to develop a fuller, deeper understanding of the nation's underpinnings.

Author Biography

Gary B. Nash received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is currently Director of the National Center for History in the Schools at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches colonial and revolutionary American History. Among the books Nash has authored are Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726 (1968); Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America (1974, 1982, 1992, 2000); The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution (1979); Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia’s Black Community, 1720-1840 (1988); First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (2002); and The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2005). A former president of the Organization of American Historians, his scholarship is especially concerned with the role of common people in the making of history.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Before Columbus	p. 1
Cultural Evolution	p. 2
Regional Cultures	p. 4
The Iroquois	p. 8
Precontact Population	p. 13
The Native American Worldview	p. 13
Europeans Reach North America	p. 17
Spanish and Portuguese Expansion into the Americas	p. 18
England Enters the Colonial Race	p. 24
Early Spanish Incursions in North America	p. 28
The French Penetration of North America	p. 32
English Images of the Native Americans	p. 38
Cultures Meet on the Chesapeake	p. 44
The Failed Colony at Roanoke	p. 44
The Reestablishment of Virginia	p. 46
Reorganization and Tobacco	p. 49
English-Indian Relations	p. 52
The War of 1622 and Its Aftermath	p. 58
Cultures Meet in the Northeast	p. 64
The Dutch in the Northeast	p. 64
Puritanism	p. 70
The Elusive Utopia	p. 73
Puritans and Indians	p. 75
The Question of Land	p. 79
The Pequot War	p. 81
The Coastal Societies: Resistance, Accommodation, and Defeat	p. 87
Metacom's War	p. 87
Bacon's Rebellion	p. 92
Colonizing South Carolina	p. 96
Carolina-Indian Relations	p. 98
The Tuscarora and Yamasee Wars	p. 102
Quaker-Indian Relations in Penn's "Holy Experiment"	p. 107
Europe, Africa, and the Americas	p. 117
The Atlantic Slave Trade	p. 118
Capture and Transport of Slaves	p. 123
The Development of Slavery in the North American Colonies	p. 127
Slavery in North and South America	p. 131
The African Ordeal Under Slavery	p. 142
Coping with Enslavement	p. 142
Regional Variations of North American Slavery	p. 144
Slave Resistance and Rebellion	p. 152
Black Culture in Colonial America	p. 157
The Transformation of Euro-American Society	p. 170
Eighteenth-Century European Immigrants	p. 170
Land, Growth, and Changing Values	p. 175
The Cities	p. 178
Changing Social Structure	p. 181
The Great Awakening	p. 184
Wars for Empire and Indian Strategies for Survival	p. 189
Iroquois Diplomacy	p. 190
Creek Diplomacy	p. 194
Cherokee Diplomacy	p. 197
Transformations in Indian Society	p. 198
Cultural Persistence	p. 207
The Seven Years' War and Its Aftermath	p. 210
Population Increase	p. 210
The Seven Years' War	p. 211
Indian Strategies in the Seven Years' War	p. 215
Indian-White Relations after 1763	p. 220
The Colonizers' Society after 1763	p. 226
The Tricolored American Revolution	p. 230
The Abolitionist Impulse	p. 230
Struggling for Liberty	p. 232
Exodus of Pro-British Slaves	p. 236
The War Comes to an End	p. 238
Leaders of the Free Blacks	p. 238
The Indians' Revolution	p. 241
The Mixing of Peoples	p. 250
Indian-European Contact	p. 251
White-Black Intermixture	p. 257
African-Indian Contact	p. 262
Cultural Interaction of Red, White, and Black	p. 266
Index	p. 275
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