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White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812, 2nd Ed. (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist)
White Over Black American Attitudes Toward the Negro 15501812 2nd Ed - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist Author:Winthrop D. Jordan 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 st... more »ill 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.« less