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An abridgement of the acclaimed White Over Black, which won both the National Book Award and a Bancroft Prize. This study attempts to answer a simple question: What were the attitudes of white men toward Negroes during the first two centuries of European and African settlement in what became the United States of America?
- HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES
- GENESIS, 1550 - 1700 - First Impressions: Initial English Confrontation with Africans
- PROVINCIAL DECADES, 1700 - 1755 : Anxious Oppressors - Freedom and Control in a Slave Society, Fruits of Passion - The Dynamics of Interracial Sex
- THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA, 1755 - 1783: Self-Scrutiny in the Revolutionary Era
- SOCIETY AND THOUGHT, 1783 - 1812: The Imperatives of Economic Interest and National Identity