| Author | Jordan, Winthrop D.
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| Title | The white man's burden : historical origins of racism in the United States / [by] Winthrop D. Jordan.
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| Published | New York : Oxford University Press, 1974.
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| Description | xvi, 229 p. ; 21 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-19-501742-0 |
| ISBN | 978-0-19-501742-7 |
| ISBN | 0-19-501743-9 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 978-0-19-501743-4 (pbk.) |
| General Note | "Much of the material in this book has been derived from White over black: American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812."
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| Bib. Note | Bibliography: p. 227-229.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: 1. Genesis: First impressions : initial English confrontation with Africans ; Unthinking decision : enslavement of Africans in America to 1700 -- 2. Provincial decades, 1700-1755: Anxious oppressors : freedom and control in a slave society ; Fruits of passion : the dynamics of interracial sex ; The souls of men : the Negro's spriritual nature ; The bodies of men : the Negro's physical nature -- 3. The Revolutionary era, 1755-1783: Self-scrutiny in the Revolutionary era -- 4. Society and thought, 1783-1812: The imperatives of economic interest and national identity ; The limitations of antislavery ; The cancer of revolution ; The resulting pattern of separation -- 5. Thought and society, 1783-1812: Thomas Jefferson : self and society ; The chain of being and the stamp of color ; Toward a white man's country -- Epilogue: Exodus.
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| Subjects | African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
United States -- Race relations.
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| Other Authors | Jordan, Winthrop D. White over black: American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812.
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| LC Card Number | 73-86980 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 446 J82
mq239244: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 143872] |
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