| Description |
xx, 651 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Genesis 1550-1700. -- I. First impressions: initial English confrontation with Africans -- 1) The blackness without -- 2) The causes of complexion -- 3) Defective religion -- 4) Savage behavior -- 5) The apes of Africa -- 6) Libidinous men -- 7) The blackness within -- II. Unthinking decision: enslavement of Negroes in America to 1700 -- 1) The necessities of a new world -- 2) Freedom and bondage in the English tradition -- 3) The concept of slavery -- 4) The practices of Portingals and Spanyards -- 5) Enslavement: The West Indies -- 6) Enslavement: New England -- 7) Enslavement: Virginia and Maryland -- 8) Enslavement: New York and the Carolinas -- 9) The un-English: Scots, Irish, and Indians -- 10) Racial slavery: from reason to rationale -- pt. 2. Provincial decades 1700-1755. -- III. Anxious oppressors: freedom and control in a slave society -- 1) Demographic configurations in the colonies -- 2) Slavery and the senses of the laws -- 3) Slave rebelliousness and white mastery -- 4) Free Negroes and fears of freedom -- 5) Racial slavery in a free society -- IV. Fruits of passion: the dynamics of interracial sex -- 1) Regional styles in racial intermixture -- 2) Masculine and feminine modes in Carolina and America -- 3) Negro sexuality and slave insurrection -- 4) Dismemberment, physiology, and sexual perceptions -- 5) The secularization of reproduction -- 6) Mulatto offspring in a biracial society -- V. The souls of men: the Negro's spiritual nature -- 1) Christian principles and the failure of conversion -- 2) The question of Negro capacity -- 3) Spiritual equality and temporal subordination -- 4) The thin edge of antislavery -- 5) Inclusion and exclusion in the Protestant churches -- 6) Religious revival and the impact of conversion -- VI. The bodies of men: the Negro's physical nature -- 1) Confusion, order, and hierarchy -- 2) Negroes, apes, and beasts -- 3) Rational science and irrational logic -- 4) Indians, Africans, and the complexion of man -- 5) The valuation of color -- 6) Negroes under the skin -- pt. 3. The Revolutionary era 1755-1783. -- VII. Self-scrutiny in the Revolutionary era -- 1) Quaker conscience and consciousness -- 2) The discovery of prejudice -- 3) Assertions of sameness -- 4) Environmentalism and revolutionary ideology -- 5) The secularization of equality -- 6) The proslavery case for Negro inferiority -- 7) The revolution as turning point -- pt. 4. Society and thought 1783-1812. -- VIII. The imperatives of economic interest and national identity -- 1) The economics of slavery -- 2) Union and sectionalism -- 3) A national forum for debate -- 4) Nationhood and identity -- 5) Non-English Englishmen -- IX. The limitations of antislavery -- 1) The pattern of antislavery -- 2) The failings of revolutionary ideology -- 3) The Quaker view beyond emancipation -- 4) Religious equalitarianism -- 5) Humanitarianism and sentimentality -- 6) The success and failure of antislavery -- X. The cancer of revolution -- 1) St. Domingo -- 2) Non-importation of rebellion -- 3) The contagion of liberty -- 4) Slave disobedience in America -- 5) The impact of Negro revolt -- XI. The resulting pattern of separation -- 1) The hardening of slavery -- 2) Restraint of free Negroes -- 3) New walls of separation -- 4) Negro churches -- pt. 5. Thought and society 1783-1812. -- XII. Thomas Jefferson: self and society -- 1) Jefferson: the tyranny of slavery -- 2) Jefferson: the assertion of Negro inferiority -- 3) The issue of intellect -- 4) The acclaim of talented Negroes -- 5) Jefferson: passionate realities -- 6) Jefferson: white women and black -- 7) Interracial sex: the individual and his society -- 8) Jefferson: a dichotomous view of triracial America -- XIII. The negro bound by the chain of being -- 1) Linnaean categories and the chain of being -- 2) Two modes of equality -- 3) The hierarchies of men -- 4) Anatomical investigations -- 5) Unlinking and linking the chain -- 6) Faithful philosophy in defense of human unity -- 7) The study of man in the republic -- XIV. Erasing nature's stamp of color -- 1) Nature's blackball -- 2) The effects of climate and civilization -- 3) The disease of color -- 4) White Negroes -- 5) The logic of blackness and inner similarity -- 6) The winds of change -- 7) An end to environmentalism -- 8) Persistent themes -- XV. Toward a white man's country -- 1) Emancipation and intermixture -- 2) The beginning of colonization -- 3) The Virginia program -- 4) Insurrection and expatriation in Virginia -- 5) The meaning of Negro removal -- Epilogue -- XVI. Exodus -- Notes on the concept of race -- Essay on sources -- Select list of full titles -- Map: Percentage of Negroes in total non-Aboriginal population, 1790 -- Index |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 610-614, scattered bibliographical footnotes) and index |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
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African Americans -- Public opinion.
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Attitude (Psychology)
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Slavery -- United States -- History.
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Whites -- United States -- Attitudes.
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Slavery.
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African Americans -- history.
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Attitude.
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Ethnopsychology -- history.
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Prejudice.
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Race Relations -- history.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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| Author |
Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
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| LC no. |
68013295 |
| ISBN |
080781055X |
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0807845507 |
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9780807810552 |
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9780807845509 |
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