White over Black : American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812.
Jordan, Winthrop D.
White over Black : American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (692 pages) - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series . - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series .
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Genesis 1550-1700 -- I. FIRST IMPRESSIONS: INITIAL ENGLISH CONFRONTATION WITH AFRICANS -- 1) The Blackness Without -- 2) The Causes of Complexion -- 3) Defective Religion -- 4) Savage Behavior -- 5) The Apes of Africa -- 6) Libidinous Men -- 7) The Blackness Within -- II. UNTHINKING DECISION: ENSLAVEMENT OF NEGROES IN AMERICA TO 1700 -- 1) The Necessities of a New World -- 2) Freedom and Bondage in the English Tradition -- 3) The Concept of Slavery -- 4) The Practices of Portingals and Spanyards -- 5) Enslavement: The West Indies -- 6) Enslavement: New England -- 7) Enslavement: Virginia and Maryland -- 8) Enslavement: New York and the Carolinas -- 9) The Un-English: Scots, Irish, and Indians -- 10) Racial Slavery: From Reasons to Rationale -- Part Two. Provincial Decades 1700-1755 -- III. ANXIOUS OPPRESSORS: FREEDOM AND CONTROL IN A SLAVE SOCIETY -- 1) Demographic Configurations in the Colonies -- 2) Slavery and the Senses of the Laws -- 3) Slave Rebelliousness and White Mastery -- 4) Free Negroes and Fears of Freedom -- 5) Racial Slavery in a Free Society -- IV. FRUITS OF PASSION: THE DYNAMICS OF INTERRACIAL SEX -- 1) Regional Styles in Racial Intermixture -- 2) Masculine and Feminine Modes in Carolina and America -- 3) Negro Sexuality and Slave Insurrection -- 4) Dismemberment, Physiology, and Sexual Perceptions -- 5) The Secularization of Reproduction -- 6) Mulatto Offspring in a Biracial Society -- V. THE SOULS OF MEN: THE NEGRO'S SPIRITUAL NATURE -- 1) Christian Principles and the Failure of Conversion -- 2) The Question of Negro Capacity -- 3) Spiritual Equality and Temporal Subordination -- 4) The Thin Edge of Antislavery -- 5) Inclusion and Exclusion in the Protestant Churches -- 6) Religious Revival and the Impact of Conversion. VI. THE BODIES OF MEN: THE NEGRO'S PHYSICAL NATURE -- 1) Confusion, Order, and Hierarchy -- 2) Negroes, Apes, and Beasts -- 3) Rational Science and Irrational Logic -- 4) Indians, Africans, and the Complexion of Man -- 5) The Valuation of Color -- 6) Negroes Under the Skin -- Part Three. The Revolutionary Era 1755-1783 -- VII. SELF-SCRUTINY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA -- 1) Quaker Conscience and Consciousness -- 2) The Discovery of Prejudice -- 3) Assertions of Sameness -- 4) Environmentalism and Revolutionary Ideology -- 5) The Secularization of Equality -- 6) The Proslavery Case for Negro Inferiority -- 7) The Revolution as Turning Point -- Part Four. Society and Thought 1783-1812 -- VIII. THE IMPERATIVES OF ECONOMIC INTEREST AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- 1) The Economics of Slavery -- 2) Union and Sectionalism -- 3) A National Forum for Debate -- 4) Nationhood and Identity -- 5) Non-English Englishmen -- IX. THE LIMITATIONS OF ANTISLAVERY -- 1) The Pattern of Antislavery -- 2) The Failings of Revolutionary Ideology -- 3) The Quaker View Beyond Emancipation -- 4) Religious Equalitarianism -- 5) Humanitarianism and Sentimentality -- 6) The Success and Failure of Antislavery -- X. THE CANCER OF REVOLUTION -- 1) St. Domingo -- 2) Non-Importation of Rebellion -- 3) The Contagion of Liberty -- 4) Slave Disobedience in America -- 5) The Impact of Negro Revolt -- XI. THE RESULTING PATTERN OF SEPARATION -- 1) The Hardening of Slavery -- 2) Restraint of Free Negroes -- 3) New Walls of Separation -- 4) Negro Churches -- Part Five. Thought and Society 1783-1812 -- XII. THOMAS JEFFERSON: SELF AND SOCIETY -- 1) Jefferson: The Tyranny of Slavery -- 2) Jefferson: The Assertion of Negro Inferiority -- 3) The Issue of Intellect -- 4) The Acclaim of Talented Negroes -- 5) Jefferson: Passionate Realities -- 6) Jefferson: White Women and Black. 7) Interracial Sex: The Individual and His Society -- 8) Jefferson: A Dichotomous View of Triracial America -- XIII. THE NEGRO BOUND BY THE CHAIN OF BEING -- 1) Linnaean Categories and the Chain of Being -- 2) Two Modes of Equality -- 3) The Hierarchies of Men -- 4) Anatomical Investigations -- 5) Unlinking and Linking the Chain -- 6) Faithful Philosophy in Defense of Human Unity -- 7) The Study of Man in the Republic -- XIV. ERASING NATURE'S STAMP OF COLOR -- 1) Nature's Blackball -- 2) The Effects of Climate and Civilization -- 3) The Disease of Color -- 4) White Negroes -- 5) The Logic of Blackness and Inner Similarity -- 6) The Winds of Change -- 7) An End to Environmentalism -- 8) Persistent Themes -- XV. TOWARD A WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY -- 1) Emancipation and Intermixture -- 2) The Beginning of Colonization -- 3) The Virginia Program -- 4) Insurrection and Expatriation in Virginia -- 5) The Meaning of Negro Removal -- Epilogue -- XVI. EXODUS -- Note on the Concept of Race -- Essay on Sources -- Select List of Full Titles -- Map: Percentage of Negroes in Total Non-Aboriginal Population, 1790 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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White over Black : American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (692 pages) - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series . - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series .
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Genesis 1550-1700 -- I. FIRST IMPRESSIONS: INITIAL ENGLISH CONFRONTATION WITH AFRICANS -- 1) The Blackness Without -- 2) The Causes of Complexion -- 3) Defective Religion -- 4) Savage Behavior -- 5) The Apes of Africa -- 6) Libidinous Men -- 7) The Blackness Within -- II. UNTHINKING DECISION: ENSLAVEMENT OF NEGROES IN AMERICA TO 1700 -- 1) The Necessities of a New World -- 2) Freedom and Bondage in the English Tradition -- 3) The Concept of Slavery -- 4) The Practices of Portingals and Spanyards -- 5) Enslavement: The West Indies -- 6) Enslavement: New England -- 7) Enslavement: Virginia and Maryland -- 8) Enslavement: New York and the Carolinas -- 9) The Un-English: Scots, Irish, and Indians -- 10) Racial Slavery: From Reasons to Rationale -- Part Two. Provincial Decades 1700-1755 -- III. ANXIOUS OPPRESSORS: FREEDOM AND CONTROL IN A SLAVE SOCIETY -- 1) Demographic Configurations in the Colonies -- 2) Slavery and the Senses of the Laws -- 3) Slave Rebelliousness and White Mastery -- 4) Free Negroes and Fears of Freedom -- 5) Racial Slavery in a Free Society -- IV. FRUITS OF PASSION: THE DYNAMICS OF INTERRACIAL SEX -- 1) Regional Styles in Racial Intermixture -- 2) Masculine and Feminine Modes in Carolina and America -- 3) Negro Sexuality and Slave Insurrection -- 4) Dismemberment, Physiology, and Sexual Perceptions -- 5) The Secularization of Reproduction -- 6) Mulatto Offspring in a Biracial Society -- V. THE SOULS OF MEN: THE NEGRO'S SPIRITUAL NATURE -- 1) Christian Principles and the Failure of Conversion -- 2) The Question of Negro Capacity -- 3) Spiritual Equality and Temporal Subordination -- 4) The Thin Edge of Antislavery -- 5) Inclusion and Exclusion in the Protestant Churches -- 6) Religious Revival and the Impact of Conversion. VI. THE BODIES OF MEN: THE NEGRO'S PHYSICAL NATURE -- 1) Confusion, Order, and Hierarchy -- 2) Negroes, Apes, and Beasts -- 3) Rational Science and Irrational Logic -- 4) Indians, Africans, and the Complexion of Man -- 5) The Valuation of Color -- 6) Negroes Under the Skin -- Part Three. The Revolutionary Era 1755-1783 -- VII. SELF-SCRUTINY IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA -- 1) Quaker Conscience and Consciousness -- 2) The Discovery of Prejudice -- 3) Assertions of Sameness -- 4) Environmentalism and Revolutionary Ideology -- 5) The Secularization of Equality -- 6) The Proslavery Case for Negro Inferiority -- 7) The Revolution as Turning Point -- Part Four. Society and Thought 1783-1812 -- VIII. THE IMPERATIVES OF ECONOMIC INTEREST AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- 1) The Economics of Slavery -- 2) Union and Sectionalism -- 3) A National Forum for Debate -- 4) Nationhood and Identity -- 5) Non-English Englishmen -- IX. THE LIMITATIONS OF ANTISLAVERY -- 1) The Pattern of Antislavery -- 2) The Failings of Revolutionary Ideology -- 3) The Quaker View Beyond Emancipation -- 4) Religious Equalitarianism -- 5) Humanitarianism and Sentimentality -- 6) The Success and Failure of Antislavery -- X. THE CANCER OF REVOLUTION -- 1) St. Domingo -- 2) Non-Importation of Rebellion -- 3) The Contagion of Liberty -- 4) Slave Disobedience in America -- 5) The Impact of Negro Revolt -- XI. THE RESULTING PATTERN OF SEPARATION -- 1) The Hardening of Slavery -- 2) Restraint of Free Negroes -- 3) New Walls of Separation -- 4) Negro Churches -- Part Five. Thought and Society 1783-1812 -- XII. THOMAS JEFFERSON: SELF AND SOCIETY -- 1) Jefferson: The Tyranny of Slavery -- 2) Jefferson: The Assertion of Negro Inferiority -- 3) The Issue of Intellect -- 4) The Acclaim of Talented Negroes -- 5) Jefferson: Passionate Realities -- 6) Jefferson: White Women and Black. 7) Interracial Sex: The Individual and His Society -- 8) Jefferson: A Dichotomous View of Triracial America -- XIII. THE NEGRO BOUND BY THE CHAIN OF BEING -- 1) Linnaean Categories and the Chain of Being -- 2) Two Modes of Equality -- 3) The Hierarchies of Men -- 4) Anatomical Investigations -- 5) Unlinking and Linking the Chain -- 6) Faithful Philosophy in Defense of Human Unity -- 7) The Study of Man in the Republic -- XIV. ERASING NATURE'S STAMP OF COLOR -- 1) Nature's Blackball -- 2) The Effects of Climate and Civilization -- 3) The Disease of Color -- 4) White Negroes -- 5) The Logic of Blackness and Inner Similarity -- 6) The Winds of Change -- 7) An End to Environmentalism -- 8) Persistent Themes -- XV. TOWARD A WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY -- 1) Emancipation and Intermixture -- 2) The Beginning of Colonization -- 3) The Virginia Program -- 4) Insurrection and Expatriation in Virginia -- 5) The Meaning of Negro Removal -- Epilogue -- XVI. EXODUS -- Note on the Concept of Race -- Essay on Sources -- Select List of Full Titles -- Map: Percentage of Negroes in Total Non-Aboriginal Population, 1790 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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