White Over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro 1550-1812 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

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In 1968 Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic detail the evolution of white Englishmens 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 with new forewords by historians Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood reminds us that Jordans 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 his work; all are judged in comparison to it; none has surpassed it.