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

Winthrop D Jordan; Christopher Leslie Brown; Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies Peter H Wood
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
 9780807871416
0-8078-7141-9

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 new forewords by historians Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood, 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.