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Blurb: “White Over Black American Attitudes
Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
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 colonial, and then the revolutionary patriot, and finally the citizen of a new nation, seeking to find his identity in a new land, he created chattel slavery and was in turn confronted by it. White Over Black is Winthrop D. Jordan's masterly study of that process, from the sixteenth century through the early years of the Republic.
"Mr. Jordan has tackled one of the most abstruse, subtle, tangled, controversial and certainly one of the most important problems of American history. It has tripped many scholars. Fully aware of all this, the author... has put simple solutions and flashy theories aside and brought to his task a patience, skepticism, thoroughness and humility commensurate with the vast undertaking. He combines these qualities with imagination and insight. The result is a massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made." —C. Vann Woodward