Winthrop D Jordan: 2 books
Tumult And Silence At Second Creek
An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
In the war-fevered spring and summer of 1861, a group of slaves in Adams County, Mississippi, conspired to gain their freedom by overthrowing and murdering their white masters. The conspiracy was discovered, the plotters were arrested and tried, and at least forty slaves in and around Natchez were...
White Over Black
American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
In 1968, Winthrop D. Jordan set out in encyclopedic 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, with new forewords by historians Christopher...