White over black : American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812 /

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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...

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Título anterior:Jordan, Winthrop D. White over black.
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jordan, Winthrop D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early Armerian History and Culture, Wiliamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Edición:Second edition,
Colección:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Temas:
To 1863
African Americans > Color > Attitudes.
Slavery > United States > History.
African Americans > History > To 1863.
Noirs américains > Couleur > Attitudes.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1863.
HISTORY > United States > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
African Americans
Race relations
Slavery
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Genesis, 1550-1700 First impressions : initial English confrontation with Africans
  • The blackness without
  • The causes of complexion
  • Defective religion
  • Savage behavior
  • The apes of Africa
  • Libidinous men
  • The blackness within
  • Unthinking decision : enslavement of Negroes in America to 1700
  • The necessities of a new world Freedom and bondage in the English tradition
  • The concept of slavery
  • The practices of Portingals and Spanyards
  • Enslavement : the West Indies
  • Enslavement : New England
  • Enslavement : Virginia and Maryland
  • Enslavement : New York and the Carolinas
  • The un-English : Scots, Irish, and Indians
  • Racial slavery : from reasons to rationale
  • Provincial decades, 1700-1755. Anxious oppressors : freedom and control in a slave society
  • Demographic configurations in the colonies
  • Slavery and the senses of the laws
  • Slave rebelliousness and white mastery
  • Free Negroes and fears of freedom
  • Racial slavery in a free society
  • Fruits of passion : the dynamics of interracial sex
  • Regional styles in racial intermixture
  • Masculine and feminine modes in Carolina and America
  • Negro sexuality and slave insurrection
  • Dismemberment, physiology, and sexual perceptions
  • The secularization of reproduction
  • Mulatto offspring in a biracial society
  • The souls of men : the Negro's spiritual nature
  • Christian principles and the failure of conversion
  • The question of Negro capacity
  • Spiritual equality and temporal subordination The thin edge of antislavery Inclusion and exclusion in the Protestant churches Religious revival and the impact of conversion
  • The bodies of men : the Negro's physical nature
  • Confusion, order, and hierarchy
  • Negroes, apes, and beasts
  • Rational science and irrational logic
  • Indians, Africans, and the complexion of man
  • The valuation of color
  • Negroes under the skin
  • The Revolutionary era, 1755-1783. Self-scrutiny in the Revolutionary era
  • Quaker conscience and consciousness
  • The discovery of prejudice
  • Assertions of sameness
  • Environmentalism and revolutionary ideology
  • The secularization of equality
  • The proslavery case of Negro inferiority
  • The revolution as turning point
  • Society and thought, 1783-1812
  • The imperatives of economic interest and national identity
  • The economics of slavery
  • Union and sectionalism
  • A national forum for debate
  • Nationhood and identity
  • Non-English Englishmen
  • The limitations of antislavery
  • The pattern of antislavery
  • The failings of revolutionary ideology
  • The Quaker view beyond emancipation
  • Religious equalitarianism
  • Humanitarianism and sentimentality
  • The success and failure of antislavery
  • The cancer of revolution
  • St. Domingo
  • Non-importation of rebellion
  • The contagion of liberty
  • Slave disobedience in America
  • The impact of Negro revolt
  • The resulting pattern of separation
  • The hardening of slavery
  • Restraint of free Negroes
  • New walls of separation
  • Negro churches
  • Thought and society, 1783-1812-- Thomas Jefferson : self and society
  • Jefferson : the tyranny of slavery
  • Jefferson : the assertion of Negro inferiority
  • The issue of intellect
  • The acclaim of talented Negroes
  • Jefferson : passionate realities
  • Jefferson : white women and black
  • Interracial sex : the individual and his society
  • Jefferson : a dichotomous view of triracial America
  • The Negro bound by the chain of being
  • Linnaean categories and the chain of being
  • Two modes of equality
  • The hierarchies of men
  • Anatomical investigations
  • Unlinking and linking the chain
  • Faithful philosophy in defense of human unity
  • The study of man in the republic
  • Erasing nature's stamp of color
  • Nature's blackball
  • The effects of climate and civilization
  • The disease of color
  • White Negroes
  • The logic of blackness and inner similarity
  • The winds of change
  • An end to environmentalism
  • Persistent themes
  • Toward a white man's country
  • Emancipation and intermixture
  • The beginning of colonization
  • The Virginia Program ; Insurrection and expatriation in Virginia
  • The meaning of Negro removal
  • Exodus. Note on the concept of race.

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