num_pages: 651
description: 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 16th century through the early years of the Republic.
language: English
title: White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
titlecomplete: White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
genres: American History, African American, Race, Psychology, Cultural, Anti Racist, Nonfiction, Politics, History, American
ratings_count: 372
awards: awardedAt: -31507200000
name: National Book Award
category: History and Biography, awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Bancroft Prize, awardedAt: -31507200000
name: Francis Parkman Prize
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc