White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 by Winthrop D. Jordan

White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

Winthrop D. Jordan

651 pages first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The Englishmen in Jamestown who greeted the first "twenty Negars" who arrived in 1619 had already acquired an attitude toward the Negro–from tradition, from religion, from earlier European contacts with Africans. And as the Englishman became the c...

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