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American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

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American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812

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White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
1968, New York: W. W. Norton & Company
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Table of Contents

Part One. Genesis 1550-1700
Chapter 1. First Impressions: Initial English Confrontation with Africans
Page 3
Chapter 2. Unthinking Decision: Enslavement of Negroes in America to 1700
Page 44
Part Two. Provincial Decades 1700-1755
Chapter 3. Anxious Oppressors: Freedom and Control in a Slave Society
Page 101
Chapter 4. Fruits of Passion: The Dynamics of Interracial Sex
Page 136
Chapter 5. The Souls of Men: The Negro's Spiritual Nature
Page 179
Chapter 6. The Bodies of Men: The Negro's Physical Nature
Page 216
Part Three. The Revolutionary Era 1755-1783
Chapter 7. Self-Scrutiny in the Revolutionary Era
Page 269
Part Four. Society and Thought 1783-1812
Chapter 8. The Imperatives of Economic Interest and National Identity
Page 315
Chapter 9. The Limitations of Antislavery
Page 342
Chapter 10. The Cancer of Revolution
Page 375
Chapter 11. The Resulting Pattern of Separation
Page 403
Part Five. Thought and Society 1783-1812
Chapter 12. Thomas Jefferson: Self and Society
Page 429
Chapter 13. The Negro Bound by the Chain of Being
Page 482
Chapter 14. Erasing Nature's Stamp of Color
Page 512
Chapter 15. Toward a White Man's Country
Page 542
Epilogue. 573
Note on the Concept of Race. 583
Essay On Sources. 586
Select List of Full Titles. 610
Map: Percentage of Negroes in Total Non-Aboriginal Population, 1790. 615
Index. 617

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Bibliography: p. 610-614. Bibliographical footnotes.

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Dewey Decimal Class
973/.0974/96
Library of Congress
E185 .J69

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xx, 651 p.
Number of pages
651

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OL5606092M
LCCN
68013295
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230525

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