Red, White, and Black

by Nash, Gary B.

• ISBN13: 9780139567568
• ISBN10: 0139567569
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

Written by highly acclaimed historian Gary B. Nash, this book 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. Coverage explores the interaction of many peoples at all levels of society, from various cultural backgrounds and across the centuries; African-Americans as active participants in the cultural process, drawing upon the work of African and African-American historians; the origins of racism, tracing the development of racial attitudes and the mixing of people across racial boundaries; Indians as much more than victims, reaching beyond the Europeans that "discovered" North America to explore the society that had already been here for thousands of years; profiles of the various European colonizers, examining French, Dutch, and Spanish settlers and comparing their treatment of enslaved Africans and Native Americans with that of the English. For those interested in Colonial American History.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vi
Introduction	1	(6)
1 Before Columbus	7	(18)
Cultural Evolution	9	(2)
Regional Cultures	11	(5)
The Iroquois	16	(5)
Pre-Contact Population	21	(1)
The Native American World View	22	(3)
2 Europeans Reach North America	25	(29)
Spanish and Portuguese Expansion into the Americas	26	(3)
The Spanish Conquest and the Atlantic Exchange	29	(3)
England Enters the Colonial Race	32	(4)
Early Spanish Incursions in North America	36	(5)
The French Penetration of North America	41	(7)
English Images of the Native Americans	48	(6)
3 Cultures Meet on the Chesapeake	54	(23)
The Failed Colony at Roanoke	54	(3)
The Reestablishment of Virginia	57	(4)
Reorganization and Tobacco	61	(3)
English-Indian Relations	64	(7)
The War of 1622 and Its Aftermath	71	(6)
4 Cultures Meet in the Northeast	77	(27)
The Dutch in the Northeast	77	(8)
Puritanism	85	(3)
The Elusive Utopia	88	(3)
Puritans and Indians	91	(4)
The Question of Land	95	(3)
The Pequot War	98	(6)
5 The Coastal Societies: Resistance, Accommodation, and Defeat	104	(35)
Metacom's War	105	(5)
Bacon's Rebellion	110	(5)
The Colonization of South Carolina	115	(2)
Carolina-Indian Relations	117	(4)
The Tuscarora and Yamasee Wars	121	(6)
Quaker-Indian Relations in Penn's "Holy Experiment"	127	(12)
6 Europe, Africa, and the New World	139	(28)
The Atlantic Slave Trade	140	(6)
Capture and Transport of Slaves	146	(5)
The Development of Slavery in the North American Colonies	151	(4)
Slavery in North and South America	155	(12)
7 The African Ordeal Under Slavery	167	(33)
Coping with Enslavement	168	(2)
Regional Variations of North American Slavery	170	(8)
Slave Resistance and Rebellion	178	(7)
Black Culture in Colonial America	185	(15)
8 The Transformation of European Society	200	(23)
Eighteenth-Century European Immigrants	200	(6)
Land, Growth, and Changing Values	206	(4)
The Cities	210	(3)
Changing Social Structure	213	(5)
The Great Awakening	218	(5)
9 Wars for Empire and Indian Strategies for Survival	223	(24)
Iroquois Diplomacy	224	(4)
Creek Diplomacy	228	(4)
Cherokee Diplomacy	232	(2)
Transformations in Indian Society	234	(10)
Cultural Persistence	244	(3)
10 The Seven Years War and Its Aftermath	247	(23)
Population Increase	248	(1)
The Seven Years War	248	(4)
Indian Strategy in the Seven Years War	252	(8)
Indian-White Relations After 1763	260	(7)
The Colonizers' Society After 1763	267	(3)
11 The Tri-colored American Revolution	270	(24)
The Abolitionist Impulse	270	(3)
Struggling for Liberty	273	(5)
Exodus of Pro-British Slaves	278	(1)
The War Comes to an End	279	(1)
Leaders of the Free Blacks	280	(4)
The Red Revolution	284	(10)
12 The Mixing of Peoples	294	(29)
Indian-European Contact	297	(6)
White-Black Intermixture	303	(5)
African-Indian Contact	308	(6)
Cultural Interaction of Red, White, and Black	314	(9)
Bibliographical Essay	323	(33)
Indian Culture	323	(2)
European-Indian Contact	325	(14)
African-American History	339	(10)
Rivalry for North America	349	(1)
Social and Political Change	350	(2)
The Tri-colored American Revolution	352	(4)
Index	356