White over Black

by Jordan, Winthrop D.; Brown, Christopher Leslie; Wood, Peter H.

• ISBN13: 9780807871416
• ISBN10: 0807871419
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-06
• Publisher: Omohundro Inst of Early Amer

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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