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

Baltimore, MD: Pelican, 1969. Later printing of first pocketbook edition. 12mo with black and white wraps with blue spine and rear cover; 651p; index; map; 18cm Fine; unread, with personal owner namestamp to front wrap verso; blue highlighter to pages 46-56; else clean and tight. Paperback. ISBN: 9781469600765, 9780807838686

Winthrop Jordan sets out in encyclopaedic 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 reminds us that this 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 this work; all are judged in comparison to it; none has surpassed it. Winner of the National Book Award in history and biography and of the Bancroft and Parkman prizes, deals with American attitudes toward the Negro from the 16th to the early 19th centuries.